It’s hard not to read the works of this confessional poet biographically given the memorable circumstances of her death—by oven.
Who is Sylvia Plath?
100
A controversial work ethic leads to personal catastrophe in the tale of this unsettling literary figure. Ah, humanity!
Who is Bartleby?
100
“I was born in Tuckahoe,” begins this famous narrative.
What is The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass?
100
This literary movement is characterized by its emphasis on everyday characters, its representation of humans as victims of fate, its emphasis on nature and—often—its unhappy endings.
What is naturalism?
100
The name of this “river” in John Cheever’s “The Swimmer” lends an ironic edge to its narrator’s “naturalist” quest.
What is Lucinda?
200
This author grew up in Eatonville, Florida, the first incorporated all-black town in America.
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
200
This character’s grandfather may or may not have had dealings with Satan.
Who is Young Goodman Brown?
200
Pride goeth before the fall in this chilling tale of man versus nature.
What is "To Build a Fire"?
200
This literary movement sought to “make it new,” as Ezra Pound put it, to negotiate tradition and invention by producing innovative, sometimes fragmented forms.
What is modernism?
200
This is the thing with feathers.
What is hope?
300
The writings of this twentieth-century poet are noted for their negotiation of the complexly interwoven threads of the poet’s identity as a black, lesbian feminist.
Who is Audre Lorde?
300
This unusually named character from a regionalist text is most memorable for his ironic repetition of the phrase “I ain’t got nothin’ to say about it, Mother.”
Who is Adoniram?
300
Intoxicated phone calls are a key form of communication in this postmodern text. So it goes.
What is Slaughterhouse 5?
300
This literary movement is characterized by imagination, sentimentalism, and individualism.
What is romanticism?
300
“So much depends on” this one, simple thing, according to William Carlos Williams.
What is a red wheel barrow?
400
The growing-yet-limited freedoms of the Harlem Renaissance period tantalize this wondering poet.
Who is Countee Cullen?
400
This realistic first-person narrator reveals more about himself than his subject, an ill-fated American coquette abroad.
Who is Winterbourne?
400
Passion, death and deception come between two old friends in this realist tale of love in the time of malaria. Reeaarrr.
What is "Roman Fever"?
400
This literary movement sought to accurately represent human experience in narrative form, usually focusing on upper-class subjects and moral dilemmas.
What is realism?
400
The narrator of Poe’s “Imp of the Perverse” devises an almost-perfect murder—by this method.
What is a poisoned candle?
500
This modernist poet evokes emotional impact through a single image: the crowds of a European subway station.
Who is Ezra Pound?
500
As a Native American prostitute on the frontier, this marginal character is doubly stigmatized—or, one might say given her fate, twice unlucky.
Who is Cherokee Sal?
500
Dear This Short Story,
Your unreliable first-person narrator called; she wants her creative freedom back.
Smooches!
Dr. Miller
What is "The Yellow Wallpaper"?
500
Literature associated with this literary movement often questions the role of narrative as a vehicle for meaning.
What is postmodernism?
500
According to Emily Dickinson, “success is counted sweetest” by this unfortunate lot.