The clergyman who shocks the Puritans by wearing a black veil.

A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of ______ details the personal experiences she endured while kidnapped.

Montresor enacts his revenge on Fortunado in this Edgar Allen Poe story.

A line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable.

(1930s-Present) This school concerns itself with class differences, economic and otherwise, as well as this implications and complications of the capitalist system.

A story about a pestilence that kills everyone. This disease is personified as a party crasher that murders a careless prince and his rich friends.

His experience of slavery is told in his autobiography: Narrative of the Life

After his encounter with the headless horseman, he is never seen in sleepy hollow again.

Phillis Wheatley wrote this poem that claims black people can go to Heaven as long as they are saved.

(1960s-Present) This school is concerned with "the ways which literature (and other cultural productions) reinforce or undermine the economic, political, social, and psychological oppression of women.

This Puritan lost many grandchildren and wrote poetry.

"Information to Those Who Would Remove to America” and
“Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America" was written by which founding father?

A transcendentalist poet that wrote about sex and nature.

These cluster of poems celebrate "adhesive" love of men for men in contrast to Walt Whitman's other cluster of poems, Children of Adam, which celebrates "amative" love of men and women.

(1970s-Present) This school explores issues of sexuality, power, and marginalized populations in literature and culture.

A line in this Poe poem goes, "And all I loved -- I loved alone--"

A genius detective solves the mystery behind the brutal murders of two women. The killer turns out to be an orangutan.

A story of a man at the end of his family line who lost his mind as his sister was dying.

In a numbered poem, this poet refers to aging as seasons as she reminisces the summer and spring of her lifetime.

(1970s-Present) This school is a theoretical and interpretive mode that examines the appearance of race and racism across dominant cultural modes of expression. Scholars attempt to understand how victims of systemic racism are affected by cultural perceptions of race and how they are able to represent themselves to counter prejudice.

In this story, a man recites the Lord's Prayer replacing most of it with "nada."

Henry David Thoreau criticizes American social institutions and policies, most prominently slavery and the Mexican-American War in this famous essay.

She wrote the essay On the Equality of the Sexes.

One of Poe's most famous poems, written in trochaic octameter, about a man that encounters an unwanted visitor after the death of a loved one.

(1980s-Present) This school, influenced by structuralist and post-structuralist theories, seeks to reconnect a work with the time period in which it was produced and identify it with the cultural and political movements of the time (Michel Foucault's concept of épistème).