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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

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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”

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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

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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

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“I’m Nobody! Who are you?”

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Emily Dickinson

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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

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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

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The Scarlet Letter

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Pearl’s mother

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Hester Prynne

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“Young Goodman Brown”

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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The Bridge Comes to Yellow Sky

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Stephen Crane

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The Open Boat

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Stephen Crane

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Red Badge of Courage

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Stephen Crane

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Henry Fleming

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Red Badge of Courage

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Jim Conklin

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Red Badge of Courage

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The protagonist was injured by a rifle butt at Chancellorsville in this novel

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Red Badge of Courage

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Simon Legree

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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This novel is subtitled “Life Among the Lowly”

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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Tom Loker

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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Eliza and George Harris

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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“The Snows of Kilimanjaro”

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Ernest Hemingway

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This story is titled for an object described as “wide as all the world”

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“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

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“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

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“The Snows of Kilimanjaro”

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Harry and Helen

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“The Snows of Kilimanjaro”

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45
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Harry dies from gangrene in this story after failing to apply iodine to his leg injury in this story

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“The Snows of Kilimanjaro”

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Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

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Edward Albee

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Three Tall Women

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Edward Albee

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Martha responds to George by saying “I am” to the title question in this play

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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

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Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

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“Exorcism” section in this play

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Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

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51
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The Jungle

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Upton Sinclair

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Dr. Schliemann (“philosophic anarchist”)

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The Jungle

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Bush Harper (union spy)

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The Jungle

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This novel ends with the cry “Chicago will be ours!”

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The Jungle

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Jurgis Rudkus (Lituanian immigrant)

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The Jungle

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Stanislovas (a young boy eaten by rats)

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The Jungle

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“Upon the Burning of our House”

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Anne Bradstreet

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The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America

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Anne Bradstreet

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“pleasant things in ashes lie”

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“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”

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The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America

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“To my Dear and Loving Husband”

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Anne Bradstreet

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The Red Pony

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John Steinbeck

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The Grapes of Wrath

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John Steinbeck

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This novel centers around the Joad Family who move to California amidst the Dust Bowl

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Grapes of Wrath

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Jim Casy

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The Grapes of Wrath

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Carl Tiflin

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The Red Pony

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The Pearl

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John Steinbeck

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Catch-22

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Joseph Heller

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Major Major

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Catch-22

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Closing Time

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Joseph Heller (sequel to Catch-22)

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Sammy Singer

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Closing Time

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The CID investigate the secret agent Washington Irving in this book

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Catch-22

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The collection North of Boston

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Robert Frost

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“The Death of the Hired Man”

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Robert Frost

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Mary and Warren

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“The Death of the Hired Man”

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“The Munich Mannequins”

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Sylvia Plath

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The Bell Jar

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Sylvia Plath

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The title city is referred to as a “morgue between Paris and Rome” in this poem

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“The Munich Mannequins”

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“You bastard, I’m through”

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“Daddy”

80
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This poem ends a stanza with “Ach, du”

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“Daddy”

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Henderson the Rain King

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Saul Bellow

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Herzog

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Saul Bellow

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The Adventures of Augie March

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Saul Bellow

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“Acquainted with the Night”

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Robert Frost

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“frozen ground-swell”

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“Mending Wall”

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Go Tell it on a Mountain

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James Baldwin

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If Beale Street Could Talk

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James Baldwin

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Fonny

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If Beale Street Could Talk

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Our Town

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Thornton Wilder

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George Gibbs

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Our Town

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Emily Webb

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Thornton Wilder

92
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Simon Stinson

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Our Town

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“The Ransom of Red Chief”

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O. Henry

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Tortilla Flat

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John Steinbeck

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Native Son

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Richard Wright

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Mary Dalton

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Native Son

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Boris A Max

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Native Son

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Bigger Thomas

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Native Son

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Jack Duane

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The Jungle

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The Odd Couple

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Neil Simon

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The Iceman Cometh

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Eugene O’Neill

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A Raisin in the Sun

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Lorraine Hansberry

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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

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Mark Twain

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Faith Cavendish

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Catcher in the Rye

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Jane Gallagher

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Catcher in the Rye

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The Pittsburgh Cycle

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August Wilson

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“A Rose for Emily”

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William Faulkner

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This short story has the fictional town of Jefferson

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“A Rose for Emily”

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Berenice Charles

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The Pittsburgh Cycle

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The Open Boat

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Stephen Crane

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This story was inspired by the author’s experiences on the SS Commodore

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The Open Boat

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“The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky”

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Stephen Crane

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“A Perfect Day for Bananafish”

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JD Salinger

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The Glass Family (Franny and Zooey”

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“A Perfect Day for Bananafish”

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“The Courtship of Miles Standish”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

116
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Fences

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The Pittsburgh Cycle

117
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Bono tells the protagonist to stay loyal to Rose

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Fences

118
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“I’m going back to Giles County”

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Fences

119
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This author wrote a travelogue in which he goes on a road trip with his dog Charley

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John Steinbeck

120
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A Streetcar Named Desire

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Tennessee Williams

121
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This play’s protagonist loses her home of Belle Reve

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A Streetcar Named Desire

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Hart Crane’s “The Broken Tower” is the epigraph for this play

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A Streetcar Named Desire

123
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Steve and Eunice fight throughout this play

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A Streetcar Named Desire

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A character in this play buys a paper lantern and constantly takes baths to calm her nerves

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A Streetcar Named Desire

125
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The Awakening

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Kate Chopin

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Edna Pontellier

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The Awakening

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“The Storm”

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Kate Chopin

128
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“A Pair of Silk Stockings”

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Kate Chopin

129
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Madamoiselle Reisz

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The Awakening

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Leonce

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The Awakening

131
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This novel begins with a parrot crying “Allez-vous en!”

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The Awakening

132
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“Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock”

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Wallace Stevens

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Harmonium

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Wallace Stevens

134
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“Murders in the Rue Morgue”

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Edgar Allan Poe

135
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C. Auguste Dupin

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“Murders in the Rue Morgue”

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Madame L’Espanaye

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“Murders in the Rue Morgue”

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In this story, a “shrill voice” heard speaking a language like Spanish to a gruff Frenchman is revealed to be an orangutan

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“Murders in the Rue Morgue”

138
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Thomas Pérez

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The Stranger

139
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Portnoy’s Complaint

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Philip Roth

140
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Glengarry Glen Ross

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David Mamet

141
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Beloved

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Toni Morrison

142
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Rabbit novels

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John Hoyer Updike

143
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Roger’s Version

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John Hoyer Updike

144
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Harry Angstrom

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Rabbit novels

145
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Harry Angstrom

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Rabbit novels

146
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The Art of Drowning

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William James Collins

147
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US Poet Laureate from 2001 to 2003

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William James Collins

148
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Nine Horses

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William James Collins

149
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“Thanatopsis”

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William Cullen Bryant

150
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“pierce the Barcan wilderness”

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“Thanatopsis”

151
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“To him who in the love of Nature holds/Communion with her visible forms”

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“Thanatopsis”

152
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Blood Meridian

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Cormac McCarthy

153
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No Country for Old Men

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Cormac McCarthy

154
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The Road

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Cormac McCarthy

155
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“A Circle in the Fire”

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Flannery O’Connor

156
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“Good Country People”

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Flannery O’Connor

157
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Patty Sing

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“A Good Man is Hard to Find”

158
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Manley Pointer

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“Good Country People”

159
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Fraudulent Bible salesman in “Good Country People”

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Manley Pointer

160
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“On the beach at night alone”

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Walt Whitman

161
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“On the beach at night alone”

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Walt Whitman

162
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“vast similitude” that “interlocks all”

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“On the beach at night alone”

163
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“vast similitude” that “interlocks all”

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“On the beach at night alone”

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