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Who Wrote It?
Types of Conflict
Which Character?
Modernist Themes
Literary Techniques
100
"A Rose for Emily"
Who is William Faulkner?
100
Prufrock worries he will not make the right choices.
What is Man vs. Self?
100
Identifies with the old man in "A Clean, Well-lighted Place"
Who is the old waiter?
100
In "Theme for English B," the black speaker says he is not as free as the white instructor.
What is racial inequality?
100
"Bessie, bop, or Bach."
What is alliteration?
200
"Theme for English B"
Who is Langston Hughes?
200
Emily Grierson refuses to pay her taxes.
What is Man vs. Society?
200
He feels overwhelmed by the world and does not dare to disturb it.
Who is Prufrock?
200
"Til human voices wake us and we drown."
What is pessimism or despair.
200
The decaying house represents the character's decaying sanity.
What is a symbol?
300
"The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock"
Who is T. S. Eliot?
300
Emily poisons her suitor?
What is Man vs. Man?
300
She kills her suitor with arsenic.
Who is Emily Grierson?
300
"I am the only colored student in my class."
What is alienation or racial inequality?
300
"The yellow fog that rubs its back on the window panes"
What is a metaphor?
400
"A Clean, Well-lighted Place"
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
400
Emily refuses to acknowledge her father's death.
What is Man vs. Nature?
400
Feels old men are disgusting
Who is the young waiter?
400
"Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?"
What is questioning everything?
400
"Your grief and mine must intertwine/like sea and river"
What is a simile?
500
"Any Human to Another"
Who is Countee Cullen?
500
"Let no man be so proud/And confident,/To think he is allowed/A little tent/Pitched in a meadow/Of sun and shadow/All his own"
What is Man vs. Society?
500
He was thought to be Emily Grierson's one chance at happiness.
Who is Homer Barron?
500
"Last week he tried to commit suicide."
What is despair or decay?
500
"S'io credessi che mia riposta fosse . . ."
What is an allusion?