Literature of the Americas Final Crossword Puzzle

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