Short Stories/Poems

wrote a note to her downstairs neighbor instructing him to call the doctor, then she committed suicide.

first poet to win the Pulitzer Prize after death

published a semi-autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar, under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas.

lines from which poem? In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old womanRises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.

"I am no source of honey/ So why should they turn on me?"

The allusion to __________ in "The Bee Box" is not merely an image for the speaker's isolated problem; rather it represents other women as well.

Which poem states "the swarmy feeling of African hands"

Crane's experiences on the front lines in Greece (1897) and later in Cuba (1898) inspired both another war novella (Active Service, published in 1899,) and this famous poem?

He recited two of his poems at the inauguration of President John Kennedy. He passed away on January 29, 1963

Melt the glass and leave the sticksLike a hermit's crucifix; Poem?

In which poem? She is remembering her father and how every memorial day he would take her and her siblings to a grave yard and give them grape sherbet, and it wasn't until later that she is realizing that they were at a grave yard, and the reason that he was giving her the sherbet was to make her associate memorial day with positive feelings and not mourning.

Which poem? We cheer. The recipe's a secret and he fights a smile, his cap turned up so the bib resembles a duck.

President Theodore Roosevelt wrote a magazine article praising this poet's poetry and Roosevelt also offered him a sinecure in a U.

S. Customs House, a job he held from 1905 to 1910.

Which poem? "one calm summer night, 15 Went home and put a bullet through his head"

[T]he poet recognizes that the two men did share a reciprocal love that, just possibly, kept them going . .

. and thus enabled them to find something of value in the war. The war made the relationship possible, and it gave the friendship, perhaps, a depth and immediacy it might not have had in other circumstances. Therefore, the surviving comrade will remember the personal I-Thou relationship that did exist, as well as recall the death that deprived him of his friend.

The old soldier maintains a vigil that is at once a lament and a celebration. It is a vigil he can never forget because it reminds him of both love and death.

1. "That was a long time ago, but it's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.

Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years."

"A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything."

"I actually aspired to cowardice, because the alternative, the real reason I was running, was that Assef was right: Nothing was free in this world. Maybe Hassan was the price I had to pay, the lamb I had to slay, to win Baba.

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The narrator and the protagonist of The Kite Runner. He is the sensitive and intelligent son of a well-to-do businessman in Kabul, and he grows up with a sense of entitlement.

Amir's best friend and half-brother as well as a servant of Baba's.

Hassan's and Sohrab's rapist and the novel's antagonist.

He represents all things wrong in Afghanistan. A racist who wishes to rid Afghanistan of Hazaras, he is incapable of remorse and enjoys inflicting violence and sexual abuse on those who are powerless.

Literary Device? Mary has called the police and the detectives are in her house. As they are eating the lamb of leg, one of the officers says in relation to the murder weapon that it is "probably right under our very noses.

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Which story is the character Mary Malony in?

What is Patrick Malony's occupation?

Which story? 'So there it is,' he added. ' And I know it's kind of a bad time to be telling you, but there simply wasn't any other way. Of course I'll give you money and see you're looked after. But there needn't really be any fuss.

What do the narrator's parents name Doodle after two months?

Where do the narrator and Doodle hang out?

Why does the narrator run ahead of Doodle in the rain?

Which story does the following quote come from? "Mama, he's all there! He's all there!"

Who speaks the following: "I did not know then that pride is a wonderful, terrible thing, a seed that bears two vines, life and death." (3.12)

"The Scarlet Ibis" belongs to what genre?

The narrator explains this about which character in "A Pair of Silk Stockings"? "She was not thinking at all. She seemed for the time to be taking a rest from that laborious and fatiguing function and to have abandoned herself to some mechanical impulse that directed her actions and freed her of responsibility."

This author wrote the short story "A Pair of Silk Stockings"

In "A Worn Path", why is Phoenix Jackson making a long journey to town?

What happens to Phoenix Jackson's memory when she finally gets to town?

She wrote "A Worn Path"

What short story has the character "Buddy" who is from a poor family?

In the story, "A Christmas Memory", what Christmas Present do the two boys give each other?

Which poem ends with the following line, "And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die"

Which poem ends with the following line, "And buried him where he fell"

Which author was a high school teacher who encouraged his students to write from their experiences, and later, found his own inspiration to write through them.

Anaphora is used in this nonfiction such as when she writes, "before an autopsy may be performed, before the deceased may be cremated, before the body may be turned over to a medical school for research purposes."

What figurative language device is used in this quote from "Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain"? "He has done everything in his power to make the funeral a real pleasure for everyone concerned."

What literary device is used in the following quote from "Dumpster Diving"? "...which is not so much a positive sign as it is the absence of a negative one,"