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He won the Pulitzer Prize for Novels in 1940 with The Grapes of Wrath.
Who is John Steinbeck?
100
Period from 1500 - 1660 that includes William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes.
What is the Renaissance Period?
100
He wrote the Canterbury Tales?
Who is Geoffrey Chaucer?
100
The one who was alive in 1602 out of Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, William Shakespeare, and Geoffrey Chaucer.
Who is William Shakespeare?
100
A lyric poem of fourteen lines, usually in iambic pentameter, with rhymes arranged according to certain definite patterns.
What is a sonnet?
200
She won the Pulitzer Prize for Novels in 1932 with The Good Earth.
Who is Pearl S. Buck?
200
The period from 1785 - 1830 that includes such poets as William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, and Percy Bysshe Shelley.
What is the Romantic Period?
200
She wrote Sense and Sensibility?
Who is Jane Austen?
200
The one who was alive in 1938 out of Cormac McCarthy, Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain, and Nathanial Hawthorne.
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
200
This term loosely describes any writing in verse or prose that has a double meaning.
What is an allegory?
300
He won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1955 for Cat On A Hot Tin Roof.
Who is Tennesse Williams?
300
A period in America from 1901 - 1914 that included authors such as Jack London and Edith Wharton.
What is Naturalism?
300
He wrote The Divine Comedy.
Who is Dante?
300
The one who was alive in 1808 out of Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Donne, Andrew Marvel, and Giovanni Boccaccio.
Who is Percy Bysshe Shelley?
300
Placing an event, person, item, or verbal expression in the wrong historical period.
What is an anachronism?
400
He won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1938 for Our Town and again in 1943 for The Skin of Our Teeth.
Who is Thorton Wilder?
400
The Catcher in the Rye and Lord of the Flies are novels that fall into this period that ranges from 1950 to the present.
What is Post Modernism?
400
She wrote The Color Purple?
Who is Alice Walker?
400
The one who was alive in 1750 out of Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Herman Melville, and Voltaire.
Who is Voltaire?
400
A monologue spoken by an actor at a point in the play when the character believes himself to be alone.
What is a soliloquy?
500
He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1937 for A Further Range.
Who is Robert Frost?
500
This age occurred from 1700-1745 during the Neoclassical Period and includes works such as Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift.
What is the Augustan Age?
500
He wrote A Doll's House.
Who is Henrik Ibsen?
500
The one who is still alive today out of Robert Frost, Sylvia Plath, Larry MacMurtry, and Tennesse Williams.
Who is Larry MacMurtry?
500
Lines in normal iambic pentameter that contain only nine syllables rather than the expected ten
What is acephalous?