What president is “O Captain! My Captain” based on?
$100 Answer from Poetry
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
$200 Question from Poetry
“I hear America Singing” is what kind of poem?
$200 Answer from Poetry
What is a list?
$300 Question from Poetry
“ I am nobody! Who are you?” is about this?
$300 Answer from Poetry
What is fame?
$400 Question from Poetry
What physical characteristic is Alfred concerned with in “The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock”?
$400 Answer from Poetry
What is his bald spot?
$500 Question from Poetry
“The Hollow Men” begins with the line “Mistah Kurtz—he dead. A penny for the old guy” (Eliot 1-2). This is an example of what literary device?
$500 Answer from Poetry
What is allusion?
$100 Question from Hemingway
In A Clean Well-Lighted Place, what ailment does the old man have?
$100 Answer from Hemingway
What is deafness?
$200 Question from Hemingway
In Hills like White Elephants, who is Jig?
$200 Answer from Hemingway
What is the girl?
$300 Question from Hemingway
In A Clean Well-Lighted Place, who said, “Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada”?
$300 Answer from Hemingway
Who is the older waiter?
$400 Question from Hemingway
What physical characteristic does the woman want to change in Cat in the Rain?
$400 Answer from Hemingway
What is her hair?
$500 Question from Hemingway
Who has the cat sent to the woman in Cat in the Rain?
$500 Answer from Hemingway
Who is the hotel concierge?
$100 Question from Vocab
giving or affording satisfaction; fulfilling all demands or requirements
$100 Answer from Vocab
What is satisfaction?
$200 Question from Vocab
characterized by vigorous exertion, as action, efforts, life, etc.
$200 Answer from Vocab
What is strenuous?
$300 Question from Vocab
tendency to speak of oneself excessively; inflated sense of one's importance; conceit
$300 Answer from Vocab
What is egotism?
$400 Question from Vocab
A form in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words
$400 Answer from Vocab
What is figurative language?
$500 Question from Vocab
A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning/moral qualities
$500 Answer from Vocab
What is allegory?
$100 Question from Short Stories
In The Yellow Wallpaper, who is John?
$100 Answer from Short Stories
Who is the narrator’s husband?
$200 Question from Short Stories
In The Yellow Wallpaper, why does the narrator bite the bed?
$200 Answer from Short Stories
What is she is mad that she can’t move it?
$300 Question from Short Stories
In The Yellow Wallpaper, how does the narrator describe the smell of the wallpaper?
$300 Answer from Short Stories
What is as a “yellow smell”?
$400 Question from Short Stories
In Barn Burning, what is the name of the boy?
$400 Answer from Short Stories
Who is Colonel Sartoris Snopes?
$500 Question from Short Stories
Other than Barn Burning, what other story mentions Colonel Sartoris?
$500 Answer from Short Stories
What is A Rose for Emily?
$100 Question from Catcher in the Rye
Where is Holden telling his story?
$100 Answer from Catcher in the Rye
What is a mental institution?
$200 Question from Catcher in the Rye
What does Holden want to “catch”?
$200 Answer from Catcher in the Rye
What is children?
$300 Question from Catcher in the Rye
“The best thing, though, in that ___________ was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody’d move. . . . Nobody’d be different. The only thing that would be different would be you.” What word completes the quote?
$300 Answer from Catcher in the Rye
What is museum?
$400 Question from Catcher in the Rye
Holden want to “catch” people to save their what?
$400 Answer from Catcher in the Rye
What is innocence?
$500 Question from Catcher in the Rye
What is the one item that Holden treasure’s the most?