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Who is Thoreau?
This man went alone to live in a cabin in the woods of Massachusetts.
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What is Sparks Diamond?
This white animal has a beautiful sequined coat and a unicorn horn.
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What is Transcendentalism?
This literary movement was based on self-reliance and a love of nature.
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Who is Tom Sawyer?
He is Huck's friend who always wants to play mischievous games.
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Who is Meyer Wolfsheim?
What is the name of Gatsby's shady companion with the cuff links made of human molars?
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Who is Frederick Douglass?
This fugitive slave wrote an autobiography and an important essay entitled "What to a Slave is the Fourth of July."
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What is the Bee?
Coles and Josh like to fight over this stuffed animal.
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What is bowling?
This sport is Stanley Kowalski's favorite.
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Who are the Grangerfords?
This family was feuding with the Shepherdsons.
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Who is Tennessee Williams?
What playwright wrote The Glass Menagerie and Streetcar Named Desire?
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What is Belle Reve?
This plantation is the lost home of Blanche Dubois in Streetcar Named Desire.
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What is drip?
Joe's Fila jacket is an example of this.
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What is modernism?
This literary movement shows experimentation and contains themes of alienation and futility.
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What is the ending?
Many critics, including Ernest Hemingway, have called this part of the book "flawed" because it shows a regression rather than a progression.
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Who is Emily Dickinson?
What reclusive American poet did not consent to publishing her poetry while she was still alive?
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What is catalepsy?
In "Fall of the House of Usher" Madeline Usher suffers from this malady that makes her living body resemble a dead corpse.
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What are push-ups?
Mrs. Smith can do more than Charles.
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What is fissure?
This word means "crack" and was used to describe the house in Poe's "House of Usher."
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What is a girl?
Huck attempts (unsuccessfully) to act like one of these but is caught when he sits with his knees apart.
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What is "Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge?"
What is the Ambrose Bierce story that relates the thoughts of condemned Civil War prisoner Peyton Farquhar?
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What is the Lost Generation?
Hemingway and Fitzgerald, two American modernists, were part of this group of writers in Paris.
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What are dead words?
Mrs. Smith does not know how students would use these things in their papers as they are not what she wants them to use.
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Who is Abigail?
This girl was the "wild child" of the witches and fomented the hysteria to hide her affair with John Proctor.
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Who is Scooby?
This is the name of Mrs. Smith's dog and is also the name of a popular cartoon.
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What is a trapped woman shaking the bars of her cage?
What symbolic hallucination does the narrator see in "The Yellow Wallpaper?"
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