Authors
Short Stories
Poetic Devices
MLA
"Sleepy Hollow"
100

One of America's first true authors; was from NY

Washington Irving

100

Hemingway story with an old man and two waiters

"A Clean, Well Lighted Place"

100

Life is a Highway

Metaphor

100

MLA stands for...

Modern Language Association

100

Who wrote it again?

Washington Irving

200

The father of Free Verse (alliterative name)

Walt Whitman

200

The Jack London story where the dog knew more than the man

"To Build a Fire"

200

Life is like a box of chocolates

Simile

200

The font that MLA prefers

Times New Roman

200

Ichabod's antagonist

Bram Bones

300

An ambulance driver in WWI (lived in Idaho)

Ernest Hemingway

300

The Bradbury story where George and Lydia have a bad day

"The Veldt"

300

Life whispers secrets and sings songs

Personification

300

What two items are included in a parenthetical, or in-text, citation?

Authors last name and page number

300

The "lady" in Ichabod's life

Katrina Van Tassel

400

Lots of Man vs. Nature conflicts in his "wolfy" stories

Jack London

400

The Bradbury story about the "smart house"

"There Will Come Soft Rains"

400

Larry lamented his life 

Alliteration

400

What's the preferred term for a bibliography?

Works Cited Page

400

What river valley did Irving know quite well?

The Hudson River valley

500

Science fiction writer; his "Veldt "story freaked people out 

Ray Bradbury

500

The O. Henry story about making sacrifices during the holiday season

"The Gift of the Magi"

500

Life is a buzzing whipsaw that crackles and pops

Onomatopoeia (also a metaphor)

500

What 4 items are contained in an MLA Heading (in order)

Your name, instructor's name, class subject, the date

500

What did the people of the town believe about what happened to Ichabod?

That the Headless Horseman was responsible for Ichabod's disappearance