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- 3. A nonfiction narrative writing based on the author's personal memories.
- 4. Last name of that famous American female author who wrote a famous novel about four sisters.
- 7. Two successive rhyming lines.
- 10. Pentameter of an unstressed stressed foot.
- 12. The ___ Jar, novel by Sylvia Plath.
- 15. Percy Bysshe Shelley belonged to this literary and artistic movement.
- 16. Frederick ____ , African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, statesman and author of one of the most famous slave narratives.
- 18. Last name of the poet who wrote “The Tyger”, “The Sick Rose” and “A Poison Tree”.
- 19. John Milton lived during this century.
- 21. Winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature and author of The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying and “A Rose for Emily”. (Last name)
- 23. A closed form consisting of fourteen lines of rhyming iambic pentameter.
- 24. Last name of woman author who wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, And Still I Rise, and Mother.
- 25. Literary genre linked to fear and horror.
- 27. This figure of speech is a deliberate exaggeration that adds emphasis, urgency, or excitement to a statement.
- 28. First name of famous detective whose partner is Dr. Watson.
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- 1. Figure of speech that places opposite things or ideas next to one another in order to draw out their contrast.
- 2. Jane Austen’s last complete novel.
- 5. A ____ in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, title inspired by a Langston Hughes poem.
- 6. This figure of speech assigns human attributes to nonhuman things.
- 8. Capote’s first name, author of Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Cold Blood.
- 9. This novel’s titular character often gets mistaken as the monster’s name. Name that novel/character.
- 11. This Shakespearean character has the same name as that hot-headed talking parrot in Walt Disney’s Aladdin.
- 13. Last name of Victorian Irish author of A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest.
- 14. Toni Morrison’s 1987 novel about a dysfunctional family of formerly enslaved people whose Cincinnati home is haunted by a malevolent spirit.
- 16. Probably the most famous short story about vampires you have ever heard of.
- 17. What colour is the hat worn by Curious George’s owner?
- 20. Last name of the author who wrote The Old Man and the Sea, The Sun Also Rises and A Moveable Feast.
- 22. Musical style originated within African-American communities in the late 19th century; famous composition of this kind of music: “The Entertainer”.
- 26. A ___ Named Desire, play by Tennessee Williams.