Literature of the Americas Final Crossword Puzzle

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