summary and title

Question 1

Novel
Hester Prynne, Pearl, Dimmesdale, Roger Chillingworth
Adultery
a lot of nature imagery

Answer 1

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Question 2

Short story
man kills an old man
he get progressively more insane
repeated eye symbolism
repeated cautiously and nervous
a lot of senses descriptions especially sound
repeated heart symbolism
em dashes
stream of consciousness

Answer 2

The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe

Question 3

short story
Young Goodman Brown goes into the woods and sees everyone he views as holy worshiping the devil
symbolism: faith, pink ribbons, staff/serpent, goodman
a lot of religious imagery
ppl: Goodman Brown, Deacon Gookin, Faith, twisted traveller (devil)

Answer 3

Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Question 4

poem
dark
“one need not” repeated
far safer repeated
human minds can be haunted as we do not know ourselves
third person

Answer 4

One need not be a chamber by Emily Dickinson

Question 5

poem
a lot of em dashes
descriptions of nature
repetition of the word mine

Answer 5

Before I got my eye put out by Emily Dickinson

Question 6

poem
repetition of songs and music
many stanza starts with let me
making songs to unite all kinds of ppl in peace
first person

Answer 6

Songs for the People by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Question 7

poem
many stanzas stars with versions of you blame me
discusses the different expectations of men and women
first person

Answer 7

A Double Standard by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Question 8

american ideals
equality/all alike
very patriotic
poem

Answer 8

America by Walt Whitman

Question 9

most lines start with The
describes multiple laboring jobs
repetition of singing/song
poem

Answer 9

I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman

Question 10

words of power
glorification of America
repetition of I will
describes landscape
poem

Answer 10

For you O Democracy by Walt Whitman

Question 11

Annabel Lee
repetition of love
boy in love with her and she dies
poem

Answer 11

Annabel Lee by Edgar Allen Poe

Question 12

Preface
Idealizes America
political liberty is paramount
individuality is good
all deserve respect

Answer 12

preface to Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Question 13

philosophical writing
encourages individuality
developing ones own opinions
self empowerment
non conformity
rich figurative language

Answer 13

Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Question 14

speech
irony of the celebration of Fourth of July and slavery

Answer 14

What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? by Frederick Douglas

Question 15

Short story/auto biography
Master Hugh
young Fredrick Douglas learns to read by working at a ship yard and ‘tricking’ white children into teaching him
this makes him more despaired as he can now understand his position as a slave

Answer 15

Learning to Read and Write by Frederick Douglas

Question 16

poem
pro abolition
talks about the value of reading
societal disapproval
stories of how slaves hid books
narrator is Chloe

Answer 16

Learning to read by Francis Ellen Watkins Harper

Question 17

Edna Pontellier, Mr. Pontellier, Robert Lebrun, madame Ratignolle, Arobin, Mademoiselle Reisz
Edna hates her life as a mother and tries to leave her role but kills her self
novel
bird imagery

Answer 17

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

Question 18

short story
the little one, Hom Hing, Lae Choo, James Clancy
Chinese immigrants have their son taken by customs officers, mother despairs, when he is returned he doesn’t recognize them
the sun as a metaphor

Answer 18

In the Land of the Free by Sui Sin Far

Question 19

short story
Native American kids taken to a boarding school
become disconnected with their culture
eventually she becomes a great author
religious imagery, metaphors, apple metaphor

Answer 19

School days of an Indian girl by Zitkala-Sa

Question 20

short story
John, Mary, Jennie, Jane
insanity
word creep
woman behind paper
woman has depression and gets slowly more insane as she is trapped in a room

Answer 20

The Yellow Wall Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gillman

Question 21

short story
Mrs. Sommers
a woman is given some money and buys many extravagant things and acts as more upperclass than she is
while she has some economic autonomy it is finite
fleeting agency
temptation
sensual language, biblical

Answer 21

A Pair of Silk Stockings by Kate Chopin

Question 22

Mr. Ryder, Mrs Dixon, Blue Vein Society, Liza Jane, Sam Taylor
Short Story
black man wants to propose to a woman but his wife from when he was a young man arrives searching for him

Answer 22

The Wife of His Youth by Charles W. Chesnutt

Question 23

Clare Kendry, Irene Redfield, Brian Redfield, Margery, Junior, Ted, Gertrude, John Kendry,
Novel
two passing women one chooses white the other chooses black

Answer 23

Passing by Nella Larson

Question 24

reflection
the difference between black lower and middle class
the feeling of black ppl wanting to be like white ppl
barriers of black people

Answer 24

The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain by Langston Hughes

Question 25

poem
reflection on what is true
how your world shapes you
speaking to white teacher

Answer 25

Theme for English B by Langston Hughes

Question 26

poem
repetition of I Too
hopeful
kitchen table

Answer 26

I Too by Langston Hughes

Question 27

poem
religion
greek myths
Italian sonnet
reclaims European structure
writing in a society that inherently punishes black authors

Answer 27

Yet do I Marvel by Countee Cullen