| Question | Answer |
| this author's writing about non-violent resistance influenced Gandhi and Martin Luther Kind Junior | thoreau |
| detective/investigator | britten |
| bigger's sister and brother | vera and buddy |
| communist who bigger blames | jan |
| irish housekeeper | peggy |
| bigger's girlfriend | bessie |
| father, who wants to believe in the good of blacks; very wealthy | mr. dalton |
| blind mother | mrs. dalton |
| killed by bigger | mary dalton |
| protagonist of native son | bigger |
| tom's mistress; very lively; hates her husband | myrtle wilson |
| auto mechanic; blames himself for wife's death; very unhappy | george wilson |
| nick is "halfway" in love with her; dishonest; pro golfer | jordan baker |
| daisy's husband; very jealous, has a mistress; born into money | tom buchanan |
| gatsby's fortune revolves around her; very different, charming girl | daisy buchanan |
| started off with no connections or money; got those things to impress daisy; very materialistic; illegal; bootlegger; seen as a fraud; dies at the end | jay gatsby |
| narrator of great gatsby; plain, straightforward, honest; ultimately, doesn't like west egg or the people | nick carraway |
| willy's dead uncle; troubled imagination; white suit; alaska | uncle ben |
| charley's son; nerd in high school; very successful; once idolized biff | bernard |
| long time neighbor of willy; genuine and helpful | charley |
| dad doesn't pay attention to him; relatively successful; competitive and ambitious | happy loman |
| can't hold a job, steals from employers, hotshot in high school, desperate to please his dad | biff loman |
| willy's wife; won't recognize his issues; clueless; loyal | linda loman |
| salesman; goal in life is to be well-liked and successful; insecure, delusional, broke | willy loman |
| up to 1853, african prose was... (non-fiction) | slave narratives |
| the use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning | irony |
| the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, exaggeration, or parody in exposing human vice or folly | satire |
| minister | emerson |
| teacher | thoreau |
| combining senses | synesthesia |
| wrote journal in walden; wrote of experiences and musings and himself | thoreau |
| extremely critical of society and tradition; natural world brings comfort; independence and inconsistency | emerson |
| writes in free verse, tries to envelop all of the US in his poems, wants to be american bard | whitman |
| who didn't live in massachusettes? | whitman |
| this author was a prolific lecturer and traveled extensively | emerson |
| this author practiced free verse | whitman |
| death was a major theme in this author's work | dickinson |
| the only author of four to have married | emerson |
| author is known for using slant rhyme | dickinson |
| author's father was a pencil maker | thoreau |
| considered the father of transcendentalism | emerson |
| to prevent choking on vomit when drunk, side with stomach, tripod | left lateral recumbant position |
| narrator reveals traits through actions and reactions | indirect characterization |
| narrator reveals traits through narration | direct characterization |
| a character who undergoes major change throughout the story | dynamic character |
| a character who remains the same throughout the story | static character |
| a character in a story whose purpose is to reveal something about another character | foil |
| a quotation at the beginning of some piece of writing | epigraph |
| a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables | iamb |
| unrhymed verse without any metrical pattern | free verse |
| 4 iambic feet, followed by 3 iambic feet | common meter |
| the basic rhythmic structure of a verse | meter |
| unrhymed verse, usually in iambic pentameter | blank verse |
| rhyme in which final sounds of words are similar but not identical | slant rhyme |
| specific and controversial, provable | thesis |
| group of painters that made distinctions between light and dark, showed vastness of nature | Hudson River School |
| 1800s, fictional, not limited to writing, nature, dark, mysterious, sublime, things undiscovered | romanticism |
| a conjunction such as if, because, although, used to introduce a subordinate clause: Paul hit the ball over the fence even though he was tired. | subordinating conjunction |
| a conjunction that links two independent clauses; FANBOYS | coordinating conjunction |
| AMANS with a non-countable subject | singular |
| AMANS with a countable subject | plural |
| joins two independent related clauses | semicolon |
| when two independent clauses are connected with just a comma and no coordinating conjunction | comma splice |
| the participial (-ed or -ing) and the phrase that goes with it | participial phrase |
| a noun phrase that describes a noun right beside it | appositive phrase |
| expresses a complete thought | independent clause |
| does not express a complete though | dependent clause |
| a group of words that contains both a subject and verb | clause |
| a group of word that lacks a subject, verb, or both | phrase |
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