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100

Camille T. Dungy got her BA from this university. 

Stanford

100

This poetic device is used by Heather McHugh throughout her poem, but specifically in the line 4: "scenery and greenery and style"

Internal Rhyme

100
Chen Qiufan has this many Nebula awards.

12

100

E. B. White is known for writing these two classic children's books.

Stuart Little and Charlotte’s Web

100

Terry Bison was a self-proclaimed member of this 1960s political movement.

The New Left

200

Chen Qiufan went to this Chinese university.

Peking University

200

Oliver Baez Bendorf is known for his use of this theme.

Despair

200

This Oliver Baez Bendorf book won the 2019 CSU Poetry Center Open Book Prize.

Advantages of Being Evergreen

200

Name one other William Wordsworth poem besides “The World is Too Much With Us”.

“The Prelude” and/or “Michael”

200

Name two members of the Lake Poets.

Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey

300

Robin Wall Kimmerer is a professor at this college.

State University of New York

300

This metaphor is used by E. B. White to embody the feeling of one-on-one interaction with the physical world.

Cathedral

300

Camille T. Dungy won this award for her poetry collection “Smith Blue”.

Crab Orchard Open Book Prize

300

Two other poems written by Naomi Shihab Nye specifically mentioned in the resource guide.

“Muchas Gracias por Todo” and “300 Goats”

300

Amanda Gorman cites this US president as one of her influences.

Abraham Lincoln

400

Marge Piercy got her masters degree at this university.

Northwestern University

400

This is the structure of a Petrarchan Sonnet.

First eight lines followed by six line response (octave and sestet respectively)

400

Time Magazine recognizes this book coauthored by E. B. White as one of hundred most influential books written in English since the 1920s

Elements of Style

400

Change Sings: A Children’s Anthem is a children's book written by this poet.

Amanda Gorman
400

E. M. Forester was a member of this modernist literature and art group.

Bloomsbury Group

500

William Wordsworth went to this school as a boy.

Hawkshead

500

"The Toxic Donut" alludes to this short story (Author and Title)

Shirley Jackson’s "The Lottery"

500

The youngest inaugural poet in American History

Amanda Gorman

500

Chen Qiufan's debut novel.

 The Waste Tide

500

In Space Leek, this compound is extracted from the leeks to create a polymer which is used to fix the space station.

Allyl methyl sulfide