This poem begins, "I celebrate myself and I sing myself"
What is "Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman
100
In poetry, this is another word for rhythm.
What is meter.
100
Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is American Transcendentalism?
100
This was Huck and Jim's primary means of transportation.
What is a raft?
100
This 1920's movement of Black artists and writers is named for the New York neighborhood at its center.
What is The Harlem Renaissance?
200
"So much depends upon" this, "beside the white / chickens / glazed with rain / water"
What is The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams
200
"when the evening is laid out against the sky like a patient etherised upon a table" is an example of this literary device.
What is simile?
200
Characterized by a belief in universal inter-connectivity
What is American Transcendentalism?
200
This river is the primary setting of the novel.
What is the Mississippi?
200
He wrote "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"
Who is Wallace Stevens?
300
He wrote, "He moves in darkness as it seems to me"
Who is Robert Frost, Mending Wall
300
This is Emily Dickinson's term for near rhyme.
What is slant rhyme?
300
Characterized by disillusionment and alienation
What is modernism
300
Huck looks up to this boy more than he should.
Who is Tom Sawyer?
300
He wrote, "I make a pact with you Walt Whitman-- / I have detested you long enough."
Who is Ezra Pound?
400
The title character of this poem begins by saying, "Let us go then, you and I, when the evening is laid out against the sky, like a patient etherised upon a table."
What is "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T. S. Eliot
400
Walt Whitman was among the first poets to write in this form, though it was popularized by the Moderns.
What is free verse?
400
Characterized by a deterministic view of the universe
What is Naturalism?
400
Jim finds this man dead in a floating house.
Who is Huck's father?
400
He wrote, "Life for me ain't been no crystal stair."
Who is Langston Hughes?
500
This story begins, "None of them knew the color of the sky."
What is "The Open Boat" by Steven Crane
500
This technique, used often by Mark Twain, attempts to mimic the actual sounds and patterns of particular accents.
What is dialect?
500
The work of Henry James
What is Realism?
500
Tom Sawyer's plan to free Jim is particularly cruel because he knows this.
What is the Widow Douglass has died and freed Jim in her will?