Literature of the Americas Final Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 5. In what city does Countee Cullen’s “Incident” take place?
  2. 7. The sentence “I ran him over” contains a _______________ verb.
  3. 9. Unstressed/stressed
  4. 11. Which tense should you use when writing an essay about a literary text?
  5. 12. What are the students supposed to yell in Mr. Vinson’s Oral Expression class?
  6. 15. What country is Nick’s cleaning lady from?
  7. 17. What is the name of the young pirate lad in Bombal’s “The Unknown”?
  8. 18. Where are Rick and Elizabeth from?
  9. 19. D.B.’s book of short stories is called The _____________ Goldfish.
  10. 24. At Gatsby’s party, Nick and Jordan meet a pair of twins who do a stage act dressed up as ___________.
  11. 26. Present _____________ end in -ing.
  12. 28. How many years does Linda live in her garret?
  13. 29. What is the last name of the reverend who wears the veil?
  14. 30. In Dickinson’s “Because I could not stop for Death,” the carriage holds “but just Ourselves / And ____________.”
  15. 32. Who wrote the poem that inspires Holden’s Catcher in the Rye fantasy?
  16. 36. What drives the narrator of “The Black Cat” to hang Pluto?
  17. 37. What did Allie die of?
  18. 39. What school did Nick and Tom go too?
  19. 41. What color is Sunny’s dress?
  20. 42. How do you join two independent clauses without a period or a coordinating conjunction?
  21. 43. What is the name of the man who left home for twenty years?
  22. 45. The most common rhyme-word in Sylvia Plath’s poem “Daddy.”
  23. 49. Tess is running away to climb mountains in ___________________.
  24. 52. How does the little lame balloon man whistle? (Three words)
  25. 53. Who is the father of Linda Brent’s children?
  26. 58. The angel in García Márquez’s story is displaced by a woman with the body of a giant __________.
  27. 59. What is the useful mnemonic device for remembering the coordinating conjunctions?
  28. 60. _____________ stand in for nouns.
  29. 62. A line of poetry with four feet is called _______meter.
  30. 64. Who is Holden’s favorite character in Romeo and Juliet?
  31. 66. What is the most important part of speech?
  32. 67. Ernie Morrow is about as sensitive as a goddamn _________________. (Two words)
  33. 70. A group of words containing a finite verb is called a ______________.
  34. 71. The most common verb in the English language is “to _______.”
  35. 72. What doth the raven quoth?
  36. 74. A relative clause beginning with ______________ is always restrictive.
  37. 75. Every grammatically correct sentence contains a ________________ verb.
  38. 76. What color will “tomorrow’s chile” be in Hughe’s “Red Silk Stockings”?
Down
  1. 1. What illness does Old Spencer have?
  2. 2. The thing in Jon/Randy’s neck that feeds him ads.
  3. 3. The fifth of Clarice Lispector’s “Five Stories on a Single Theme” is called “Liebnitz and the Transcendence of Love in ________________.”
  4. 4. Who painted the painting that Flan needs $2million dollars from Geoffrey to buy?
  5. 6. Linda finds it hard to leave the South because she is so attached to her ____________.
  6. 8. What kind of sweater did James Castle borrow from Holden?
  7. 10. A relative clause beginning with ___________ is always non-restrictive.
  8. 13. Prepositional phrases usually end with a _______________.
  9. 14. What is the name of the man who passed out from the heat at Tom and Daisy’s wedding?
  10. 16. At the end of the party at Myrtle and Tom’s apartment in New York, Nick wipes a bit of ____________ off of Mr. McKee’s face.
  11. 20. A verb that takes an indirect object is called ditransitive or _______________.
  12. 21. Thoreau went to the woods because he wished to live _____________.
  13. 22. Farm Implements and Rutabagas is written in this poetic form.
  14. 23. Stressed/unstressed
  15. 25. My, your, our, and her are all what part of speech?
  16. 27. The drug that Jon/Randy and Caroline take to keep them happy.
  17. 31. Who is the “young negro poet” that Langston Hughes criticizes in “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain.”
  18. 33. Where do Bona and Paul and Art and Helen have their date (two words)?
  19. 34. What is Flan and Ouisa’s silver Victorian inkwell shaped like?
  20. 35. what is the useful mnemonic device for remembering whether you need a comma in a sentence containing a subordinate clause?
  21. 38. Ouisa is worried about turning all of her experiences into ________________.
  22. 40. What do Phoebe’s pajamas have on the collars?
  23. 41. What color tie does Gatsby wear for tea with Nick and Daisy?
  24. 44. Who shoots Wilson?
  25. 46. In A Small Place, “You see an incredibly unattractive, fat, _____________-fleshed woman enjoying a walk on the beautiful sand.”
  26. 47. What color suit does Gatsby wear for the big showdown in Chapter Seven?
  27. 48. According to the last page of the novel, what kind of future did Gatsby believe in?
  28. 50. Man is Hard to Find
  29. 51. You should use whom rather than who when the pronoun is the ______________ of the verb in its clause.
  30. 54. What will you hear in the sound of the wind if you do not have a mind of winter?
  31. 55. What is Bartleby’s infections word?
  32. 56. According to Donald Barthelme, what is the art form of the twentieth century?
  33. 57. Copular verbs usually take a _________________.
  34. 61. Which of the following words alliterates with adhesive: Advil or heat.
  35. 63. What is Fern’s last name?
  36. 64. Wolfsheim’s cuff links are made out of “the finest specimens of human ______________.”
  37. 65. the two most common articles, smooshed together.
  38. 68. The only emperor is the emperor of _______________. (Two words)
  39. 69. What is the name of Dan Cody’s boat?
  40. 72. Who loves anyone?
  41. 73. What is a perfect rhyme for “bat”?
  42. 75. How many dollars do the white people pay for Isis/the tablecloth in “Drenched in Light.”