American Literature (Quarter A)

Random

100

This character in "A Raisin in the Sun" struggles with filling his father's shoes and becoming head of the household

Walter

200

This happens to the main character at the very end of Kate Chopin's "Story of an Hour"

She dies

300

This vocab word means "the following of one thing after another in casual or logical order"

Sequence

400

This transparent 'thing' is used as a central metaphor in "Nature" by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Eyeball

500

This is what Mitch calls Morrie's aphorisms in "Tuesdays with Morrie"?

Morrie-isms

Unit 1

100

The Declaration of Independence was written in this year

1776

200

This important historical document begins with the words, "We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union..."

The Constitution

300

This representative wrote the "Speech in the Convention" a 1787 appeal to fellow representatives to approve the Constitution. 

Benjamin Franklin

400

Abraham Lincoln gave this important speech in July 1863, named after the major battle it followed.

Gettysburg Address

500

Olaudah Equiano was kidnapped as a child from his home in which region of Africa? (North, South, East, or West)

West Africa

Unit 2

100

This writer is the author of "Tuesdays with Morrie"

Mitch Albom

200

This writer is best known for "Walden" and "Civil Disobedience"

Henry David Thoreau

300

This writer, born in 1830, is best known for her unconventional style, including unusual capitalization and punctuation.

Emily Dickinson

400

This writer is best known for the works "Leaves of Grass" and "Song of Myself"

Walt Whitman

500

This writer is best known for "Nature" and "Self-Reliance"

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Unit 3

100

This play, written by Lorraine Hansberry, focuses on themes like prejudice, family, and the American Dream

"A Raisin in the Sun"

200

This writer, a leader of the Harlem Renaissance, is best known for his poems, "Harlem", "I, Too", and "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"

Langston Hughes

300

Elizabeth Cady Stanton's "Declaration of Sentiments", presented in 1848, argued for the rights of which group of people?

Women

400

This writer, a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance, wrote "How it Feels to be Colored Me"

Zora Neale Hurston

500

This item serves as a symbol of hope in the very last scene of Lorraine Hansberry's classic 1959 play

Mama's plant

Writing

100

Use this font size when typing in MLA

12

200

When writing in MLA, you need to do this to your title

Center

300

This is the first part of TIQA - the 'T' stands for this

Topic Sentence

400

This last part of TIQA should take up roughly half of your TIQA paragraph

Analysis

500

Your thesis statement should be included at the very end of this paragraph in your essay

Introduction