American Lit Flashcards
(163 cards)
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“Because I Could Not Stop for Death”
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Emily Dickinson
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“I heard a Fly buzz — when I died”
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Emily Dickinson
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Belle of Amherst
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Emily Dickinson
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“My life had stood — a Loaded Gun”
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Emily Dickinson
5
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This author’s poems were edited by letter by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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Emily Dickinson
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This author self identifies as “Daisy” and sends letters to “Master,” Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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Emily Dickinson
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“”Hope” is the thing with feathers”
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Emily Dickinson
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“Wild Nights — Wild Nights”
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Emily Dickinson
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Describes how a creature creates a “Stillness in the room”
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“I heard a fly buzz — when I died”
10
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The title thing “perches in the soul”
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“”Hope” is the thing with feathers”
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“Death is like the insect”
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Emily Dickinson
12
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“Bait it with the balsam/Seek it with the saw”
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“Death is like the insect”
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“Blue-uncertain-stumbling-buzz”
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“I heard a fly buzz — when I died”
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“Fame is a fickle food”
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Emily Dickinson
15
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“I’m Nobody! Who are you?”
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Emily Dickinson
16
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“I felt a Funeral, in my Brain”
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Emily Dickinson
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This poem was initially titled “The Chariot”
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“Because I could not stop for Death-“
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“House that seemed/A Swelling of the Ground”
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“Because I could not stop for Death-“
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“Hope” is compared to one of these things in Emily Dickinson’s poem
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Birds
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“The Minister’s Black Veil”
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Reverend Hooper
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“The Minister’s Black Veil”
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The Scarlet Letter
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Hester Prynne
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The Scarlet Letter
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Roger Chillingsworth
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The Scarlet Letter
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The title object is first encountered in a custom house in this novel
The Scarlet Letter
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This title object is rumored to glow at night and appears against a black background on a shared gravestone
The Scarlet Letter
27
Pearl’s mother
Hester Prynne
28
“Young Goodman Brown”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
29
The Bridge Comes to Yellow Sky
Stephen Crane
30
The Open Boat
Stephen Crane
31
Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane
32
Henry Fleming
Red Badge of Courage
33
Jim Conklin
Red Badge of Courage
34
The protagonist was injured by a rifle butt at Chancellorsville in this novel
Red Badge of Courage
35
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
36
Simon Legree
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
37
This novel is subtitled “Life Among the Lowly”
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
38
Tom Loker
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
39
Eliza and George Harris
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
40
“The Snows of Kilimanjaro”
Ernest Hemingway
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This story is titled for an object described as “wide as all the world”
“The Snows of Kilimanjaro”
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A “dried and frozen carcass of a leopard” foreshadows the protagonist’s fate at the beginning of this story which ends with a hyena whining
“The Snows of Kilimanjaro”
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A flashback in this story references the “potato-faced” Tristan Tzara, as well as “Julian” in this story
“The Snows of Kilimanjaro”
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Harry and Helen
“The Snows of Kilimanjaro”
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Harry dies from gangrene in this story after failing to apply iodine to his leg injury in this story
“The Snows of Kilimanjaro”
46
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Edward Albee
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Three Tall Women
Edward Albee
48
Martha responds to George by saying “I am” to the title question in this play
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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A character is called “Mousie” and is implicitly accused of forcing her husband to stay with her through a false pregnancy in this play
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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“Exorcism” section in this play
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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The Jungle
Upton Sinclair
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Dr. Schliemann (“philosophic anarchist”)
The Jungle
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Bush Harper (union spy)
The Jungle
54
This novel ends with the cry “Chicago will be ours!”
The Jungle
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Jurgis Rudkus (Lituanian immigrant)
The Jungle
56
Stanislovas (a young boy eaten by rats)
The Jungle
57
“Upon the Burning of our House”
Anne Bradstreet
58
The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America
Anne Bradstreet
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“pleasant things in ashes lie”
“Upon the Burning of Our House”
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This collection includes five section ms each titled for four things with “The Assyrian” being the first of its “The Four Monarchies”
The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America
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“To my Dear and Loving Husband”
Anne Bradstreet
62
The Red Pony
John Steinbeck
63
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
64
This novel centers around the Joad Family who move to California amidst the Dust Bowl
Grapes of Wrath
65
Jim Casy
The Grapes of Wrath
66
Carl Tiflin
The Red Pony
67
The Pearl
John Steinbeck
68
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
69
Major Major
Catch-22
70
Closing Time
Joseph Heller (sequel to Catch-22)
71
Sammy Singer
Closing Time
72
The CID investigate the secret agent Washington Irving in this book
Catch-22
73
The collection North of Boston
Robert Frost
74
“The Death of the Hired Man”
Robert Frost
75
Mary and Warren
“The Death of the Hired Man”
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“The Munich Mannequins”
Sylvia Plath
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The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
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The title city is referred to as a “morgue between Paris and Rome” in this poem
“The Munich Mannequins”
79
“You bastard, I’m through”
“Daddy”
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This poem ends a stanza with “Ach, du”
“Daddy”
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Henderson the Rain King
Saul Bellow
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Herzog
Saul Bellow
83
The Adventures of Augie March
Saul Bellow
84
“Acquainted with the Night”
Robert Frost
85
“frozen ground-swell”
“Mending Wall”
86
Go Tell it on a Mountain
James Baldwin
87
If Beale Street Could Talk
James Baldwin
88
Fonny
If Beale Street Could Talk
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Our Town
Thornton Wilder
90
George Gibbs
Our Town
91
Emily Webb
Thornton Wilder
92
Simon Stinson
Our Town
93
“The Ransom of Red Chief”
O. Henry
94
Tortilla Flat
John Steinbeck
95
Native Son
Richard Wright
96
Mary Dalton
Native Son
97
Boris A Max
Native Son
98
Bigger Thomas
Native Son
99
Jack Duane
The Jungle
100
The Odd Couple
Neil Simon
101
The Iceman Cometh
Eugene O’Neill
102
A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry
103
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Mark Twain
104
Faith Cavendish
Catcher in the Rye
105
Jane Gallagher
Catcher in the Rye
106
The Pittsburgh Cycle
August Wilson
107
“A Rose for Emily”
William Faulkner
108
This short story has the fictional town of Jefferson
“A Rose for Emily”
109
Berenice Charles
The Pittsburgh Cycle
110
The Open Boat
Stephen Crane
111
This story was inspired by the author’s experiences on the SS Commodore
The Open Boat
112
“The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky”
Stephen Crane
113
“A Perfect Day for Bananafish”
JD Salinger
114
The Glass Family (Franny and Zooey”
“A Perfect Day for Bananafish”
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“The Courtship of Miles Standish”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
116
Fences
The Pittsburgh Cycle
117
Bono tells the protagonist to stay loyal to Rose
Fences
118
“I’m going back to Giles County”
Fences
119
This author wrote a travelogue in which he goes on a road trip with his dog Charley
John Steinbeck
120
A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams
121
This play’s protagonist loses her home of Belle Reve
A Streetcar Named Desire
122
Hart Crane’s “The Broken Tower” is the epigraph for this play
A Streetcar Named Desire
123
Steve and Eunice fight throughout this play
A Streetcar Named Desire
124
A character in this play buys a paper lantern and constantly takes baths to calm her nerves
A Streetcar Named Desire
125
The Awakening
Kate Chopin
126
Edna Pontellier
The Awakening
127
“The Storm”
Kate Chopin
128
“A Pair of Silk Stockings”
Kate Chopin
129
Madamoiselle Reisz
The Awakening
130
Leonce
The Awakening
131
This novel begins with a parrot crying “Allez-vous en!”
The Awakening
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“Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock”
Wallace Stevens
133
Harmonium
Wallace Stevens
134
“Murders in the Rue Morgue”
Edgar Allan Poe
135
C. Auguste Dupin
“Murders in the Rue Morgue”
136
Madame L’Espanaye
“Murders in the Rue Morgue”
137
In this story, a “shrill voice” heard speaking a language like Spanish to a gruff Frenchman is revealed to be an orangutan
“Murders in the Rue Morgue”
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Thomas Pérez
The Stranger
139
Portnoy’s Complaint
Philip Roth
140
Glengarry Glen Ross
David Mamet
141
Beloved
Toni Morrison
142
Rabbit novels
John Hoyer Updike
143
Roger’s Version
John Hoyer Updike
144
Harry Angstrom
Rabbit novels
145
Harry Angstrom
Rabbit novels
146
The Art of Drowning
William James Collins
147
US Poet Laureate from 2001 to 2003
William James Collins
148
Nine Horses
William James Collins
149
“Thanatopsis”
William Cullen Bryant
150
“pierce the Barcan wilderness”
“Thanatopsis”
151
“To him who in the love of Nature holds/Communion with her visible forms”
“Thanatopsis”
152
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy
153
No Country for Old Men
Cormac McCarthy
154
The Road
Cormac McCarthy
155
“A Circle in the Fire”
Flannery O’Connor
156
“Good Country People”
Flannery O’Connor
157
Patty Sing
“A Good Man is Hard to Find”
158
Manley Pointer
“Good Country People”
159
Fraudulent Bible salesman in “Good Country People”
Manley Pointer
160
“On the beach at night alone”
Walt Whitman
161
“On the beach at night alone”
Walt Whitman
162
“vast similitude” that “interlocks all”
“On the beach at night alone”
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“vast similitude” that “interlocks all”
“On the beach at night alone”
