Authors
An actor who wrote multiple sonnets and plays and uses early modern English. He's most famous for his plays, which are still performed today.
Who is Billy Shakes?
A story about a stolen wooden leg, women in society, and a Bible salesman.
What is Good Country People?
A form of poetry with 14 lines - can be Petrarchan, Shakespearian, or Spenserian
What is a Sonnet?
A first person narrator you cannot trust to tell you the truth of the story.
What is an unreliable narrator?
Principles of Literature
What is the title of this class?
He is famous for marrying his cousin, dying mysteriously, and bricking characters behind walls.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
A story about bad interior designing, post partum depression, and losing one's mind.
What is the Yellow Wallpaper?
Poetry with no specific form or or rhyme scheme
What is free form, experimental, or blank verse poetry?
A circular plot type that involves the main character going out of their comfort zone and learning something new.
What is a hero's journey?
The student who always asks if class will be canceled
Who is Zaland Swain?
We've read two poems and a short story by this groundbreaking author (leader of the Harlem Renaissance).
Who is Langston Hughes?
A story about a girl who can't stop letting strangers into her house despite almost dying multiple times.
What is Snow White and the Seven Dwarves?
It has three lines and a total of 17 syllables
What is a haiku?
What is a static character?
The next module (after spring break)
What is drama?
She only wrote one short story, "Recititaf"
Who is Toni Morrison?
A story about hope, freedom, and an ill-fated balloon ride.
A Wall of Fire Rising
The only rhythm and meter phrase necessary to remember (unless you're a literary scholar or poet)
What is iambic pentameter?
The most internal type of conflict
What is person vs. self?
Mrs. Kwan's maiden name
What is Brown?
First Black woman (or woman at all) to publish a book of poetry in America. Wrote on slavery and Christianity.
Who is Phillis Wheatley?
The title of this story was based on a Bible verse about a stranger in town. It is cryptically referenced on a car in the work.
What is Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
Words that look like they rhyme, but don't when pronounced out loud.
What is an eye rhyme?
An item or concept that represents something else in the story.
What is a symbol?
My dog's full name (it's literary)
What is Huckleberry Finn?