Threads of the Tale
Lit Lingo
Ink & Identity
Quite the Character
Potpourri
100

The theme of The Scarlet Letter

Sin has consequences

100

"Swift autumn, like a bonfire of leaves" describes this literary device

Simile

100

This author of "Paul Revere's Ride" needed a swift courier to tell him his wife was on fire!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

100

The fictional narrator and protagonist of "The Experiences of the A.C."

Enos Billings

100

This author, the first American writer to be recognized interationally, wrote about a sleepy man and a sleepy hollow.

Washington Irving

200

The chilling line "Thou hast escaped me" belongs to whom?

Chillingworth

200

"Take from our souls the strain and stress."

Alliteration

200

This self-reliant "Concord Hymn" writer is known as the father of Transcendentalism. 

Ralph Waldo Emerson

200

The younger, somewhat judgmental, and easily manipulated lady in "The Unerring Instinct"

Belinda Watson

200

America's most beloved song composer, this author had a fixation on a girl named Susanna.

Stephen Foster

300

This Josh Billings tale describes a creature "Tha never have no dissease that a good club wont heal." 

"The Mule"

300

Clatter, pop, and bang describes what literary device? 

Onomatopoeia

300

Russian Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote this address at Harvard reminding Americans the mere freedom does not sold all the problems of life and even adds new ones. 

"A World Split Apart"

300

The beefy, disruptive student at Lonesome Valley School who was stuck in the first grade for eight years

Guy Hawkins

300

The theme that everyone and everything has a purpose is illustrated in this poem (not by Aesop).

"Fable"

400

"Conjugal Harmony" explains a republic within a republic and a world within a world is spelled by these four letters. 

HOME

400

"Crash, and clash, and clang"

Assonance

400

Another name for this Anne Bradstreet poem might be "The creator to her novel"

"The Author to Her Book" 

400

The names of the couple with the right motives in "The Great Carbuncle"

Matthew and Hannah

400

Refers to the attitude or emotion of the author toward his subject

Tone
500

This "Cabbages Is Beautiful" protagonist brought the top bid at auction with her humble lunchbox. 

Selina Peake

500

A compact statement expressing a truth

Aphorism

500

This author of "Thanatopsis" bears the initials WCB

William Cullen Bryant

500

The old man storyteller in “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”

Simon Wheeler

500

The name of Hiawatha's grandmother

Nokomis