American Lit Flashcards
“Because I Could Not Stop for Death”
Emily Dickinson
“I heard a Fly buzz — when I died”
Emily Dickinson
Belle of Amherst
Emily Dickinson
“My life had stood — a Loaded Gun”
Emily Dickinson
This author’s poems were edited by letter by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Emily Dickinson
This author self identifies as “Daisy” and sends letters to “Master,” Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Emily Dickinson
“”Hope” is the thing with feathers”
Emily Dickinson
“Wild Nights — Wild Nights”
Emily Dickinson
Describes how a creature creates a “Stillness in the room”
“I heard a fly buzz — when I died”
The title thing “perches in the soul”
“”Hope” is the thing with feathers”
“Death is like the insect”
Emily Dickinson
“Bait it with the balsam/Seek it with the saw”
“Death is like the insect”
“Blue-uncertain-stumbling-buzz”
“I heard a fly buzz — when I died”
“Fame is a fickle food”
Emily Dickinson
“I’m Nobody! Who are you?”
Emily Dickinson
“I felt a Funeral, in my Brain”
Emily Dickinson
This poem was initially titled “The Chariot”
“Because I could not stop for Death-“
“House that seemed/A Swelling of the Ground”
“Because I could not stop for Death-“
“Hope” is compared to one of these things in Emily Dickinson’s poem
Birds
“The Minister’s Black Veil”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Reverend Hooper
“The Minister’s Black Veil”
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Hester Prynne
The Scarlet Letter
Roger Chillingsworth
The Scarlet Letter
The title object is first encountered in a custom house in this novel
The Scarlet Letter
This title object is rumored to glow at night and appears against a black background on a shared gravestone
The Scarlet Letter
Pearl’s mother
Hester Prynne
“Young Goodman Brown”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Bridge Comes to Yellow Sky
Stephen Crane
The Open Boat
Stephen Crane
Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane
Henry Fleming
Red Badge of Courage
Jim Conklin
Red Badge of Courage
The protagonist was injured by a rifle butt at Chancellorsville in this novel
Red Badge of Courage
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Simon Legree
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
This novel is subtitled “Life Among the Lowly”
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Tom Loker
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Eliza and George Harris
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
“The Snows of Kilimanjaro”
Ernest Hemingway
This story is titled for an object described as “wide as all the world”
“The Snows of Kilimanjaro”
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”
A flashback in this story references the “potato-faced” Tristan Tzara, as well as “Julian” in this story
“The Snows of Kilimanjaro”
Harry and Helen
“The Snows of Kilimanjaro”
Harry dies from gangrene in this story after failing to apply iodine to his leg injury in this story
“The Snows of Kilimanjaro”
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Edward Albee
Three Tall Women
Edward Albee
Martha responds to George by saying “I am” to the title question in this play
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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?
“Exorcism” section in this play
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
The Jungle
Upton Sinclair
Dr. Schliemann (“philosophic anarchist”)
The Jungle
Bush Harper (union spy)
The Jungle
This novel ends with the cry “Chicago will be ours!”
The Jungle
Jurgis Rudkus (Lituanian immigrant)
The Jungle
Stanislovas (a young boy eaten by rats)
The Jungle
“Upon the Burning of our House”
Anne Bradstreet
The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America
Anne Bradstreet
“pleasant things in ashes lie”
“Upon the Burning of Our House”
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
“To my Dear and Loving Husband”
Anne Bradstreet
The Red Pony
John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
This novel centers around the Joad Family who move to California amidst the Dust Bowl
Grapes of Wrath
Jim Casy
The Grapes of Wrath
Carl Tiflin
The Red Pony
The Pearl
John Steinbeck
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
Major Major
Catch-22
Closing Time
Joseph Heller (sequel to Catch-22)
Sammy Singer
Closing Time
The CID investigate the secret agent Washington Irving in this book
Catch-22
The collection North of Boston
Robert Frost
“The Death of the Hired Man”
Robert Frost
Mary and Warren
“The Death of the Hired Man”
“The Munich Mannequins”
Sylvia Plath
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
The title city is referred to as a “morgue between Paris and Rome” in this poem
“The Munich Mannequins”
“You bastard, I’m through”
“Daddy”
This poem ends a stanza with “Ach, du”
“Daddy”
Henderson the Rain King
Saul Bellow
Herzog
Saul Bellow
The Adventures of Augie March
Saul Bellow
“Acquainted with the Night”
Robert Frost
“frozen ground-swell”
“Mending Wall”
Go Tell it on a Mountain
James Baldwin
If Beale Street Could Talk
James Baldwin
Fonny
If Beale Street Could Talk
Our Town
Thornton Wilder
George Gibbs
Our Town
Emily Webb
Thornton Wilder
Simon Stinson
Our Town
“The Ransom of Red Chief”
O. Henry
Tortilla Flat
John Steinbeck
Native Son
Richard Wright
Mary Dalton
Native Son
Boris A Max
Native Son
Bigger Thomas
Native Son
Jack Duane
The Jungle
The Odd Couple
Neil Simon
The Iceman Cometh
Eugene O’Neill
A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Mark Twain
Faith Cavendish
Catcher in the Rye
Jane Gallagher
Catcher in the Rye
The Pittsburgh Cycle
August Wilson
“A Rose for Emily”
William Faulkner
This short story has the fictional town of Jefferson
“A Rose for Emily”
Berenice Charles
The Pittsburgh Cycle
The Open Boat
Stephen Crane
This story was inspired by the author’s experiences on the SS Commodore
The Open Boat
“The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky”
Stephen Crane
“A Perfect Day for Bananafish”
JD Salinger
The Glass Family (Franny and Zooey”
“A Perfect Day for Bananafish”
“The Courtship of Miles Standish”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Fences
The Pittsburgh Cycle
Bono tells the protagonist to stay loyal to Rose
Fences
“I’m going back to Giles County”
Fences
This author wrote a travelogue in which he goes on a road trip with his dog Charley
John Steinbeck
A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams
This play’s protagonist loses her home of Belle Reve
A Streetcar Named Desire
Hart Crane’s “The Broken Tower” is the epigraph for this play
A Streetcar Named Desire
Steve and Eunice fight throughout this play
A Streetcar Named Desire
A character in this play buys a paper lantern and constantly takes baths to calm her nerves
A Streetcar Named Desire
The Awakening
Kate Chopin
Edna Pontellier
The Awakening
“The Storm”
Kate Chopin
“A Pair of Silk Stockings”
Kate Chopin
Madamoiselle Reisz
The Awakening
Leonce
The Awakening
This novel begins with a parrot crying “Allez-vous en!”
The Awakening
“Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock”
Wallace Stevens
Harmonium
Wallace Stevens
“Murders in the Rue Morgue”
Edgar Allan Poe
C. Auguste Dupin
“Murders in the Rue Morgue”
Madame L’Espanaye
“Murders in the Rue Morgue”
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”
Thomas Pérez
The Stranger
Portnoy’s Complaint
Philip Roth
Glengarry Glen Ross
David Mamet
Beloved
Toni Morrison
Rabbit novels
John Hoyer Updike
Roger’s Version
John Hoyer Updike
Harry Angstrom
Rabbit novels
Harry Angstrom
Rabbit novels
The Art of Drowning
William James Collins
US Poet Laureate from 2001 to 2003
William James Collins
Nine Horses
William James Collins
“Thanatopsis”
William Cullen Bryant
“pierce the Barcan wilderness”
“Thanatopsis”
“To him who in the love of Nature holds/Communion with her visible forms”
“Thanatopsis”
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy
No Country for Old Men
Cormac McCarthy
The Road
Cormac McCarthy
“A Circle in the Fire”
Flannery O’Connor
“Good Country People”
Flannery O’Connor
Patty Sing
“A Good Man is Hard to Find”
Manley Pointer
“Good Country People”
Fraudulent Bible salesman in “Good Country People”
Manley Pointer
“On the beach at night alone”
Walt Whitman
“On the beach at night alone”
Walt Whitman
“vast similitude” that “interlocks all”
“On the beach at night alone”
“vast similitude” that “interlocks all”
“On the beach at night alone”
