This short story uses the concept of time to play with the reader’s expectations of the story’s ending.
What is “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”?
100
This author was shamed by the critics of her time for her risqué subject matter.
Who is Kate Chopin?
100
“Mrs. Farquhar was only too happy to serve him with her own white hands.”
What is “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce?
100
A style of writing during the late 19th C. that emphasized the dialect, environment, and characteristics of a specific place.
What is Local Color?
200
This character plays the piano and does not care what others think of her.
Who is Mademoiselle Reisz?
200
This literary work highlights Creole culture.
What is The Awakening?
200
This writer disappeared in Mexico and was never seen or heard from again.
Who is Ambrose Bierce?
200
“I bought the vineyard, nevertheless….”
What is “The Goophered Grapevine,” by Charles Chesnutt?
200
A mid-to-late 19th century literary and artistic movement that emphasized everyday people and life without idealization or romanticism.
What is Realism?
300
This character’s wife leaves him to live in her own, smaller, house.
Who is Leonce Pontellier?
300
This short story is part of a collection of stories told by a character named Uncle Julius.
What is “The Goophered Grapevine”?
300
This New England poet often used images of the natural world and death.
Who is Emily Dickinson?
300
“The hands of these men would be criss-crossed with cuts, until you could no longer pretend to count them or to trace them.”
What is The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair?
300
An offshoot of Realism, this type of literature places characters in a world governed by the forces of nature.
What is Naturalism?
400
This character strolls along behind others, always counting her prayer beads.
Who is the Lady in Black?
400
This poem personifies Death as a driver of a carriage.
What is “Because I could not stop for death”?
400
The poet was the first to use free verse form in American poetry.
Who is Walt Whitman?
400
“He thought it very discourage that his wife, who was the sole object of his existence, evinced so little interest in things which concerned him and valued so little his conversation.”
What is The Awakening, by Kate Chopin?
400
A common stanza form, consisting of a quatrain that alternates four and three foot lines, with lines two and four usually rhyming.
What is a Ballad stanza?
500
This character encourages her boyfriend to do something worthwhile for once in his life.
Who is Charity Lomax?
500
This poem address the experience of watching many different people in the New York harbor.
What is “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”?
500
This author was first published in The Atlantic, a well-respected magazine of his time.
Who is Charles Chesnutt?
500
“And then the windows closed and then / I could not see to see.”
What is “I heard a fly buzz” by Emily Dickinson
500
“Blue buzz” is an example of this type of poetic device.