Across: |
| 1. | At the end of her story, Editha "rose from grovelling in shame" at what she had done and "began to live again in the _____." |
| 4. | Dunbar's poem suggests that a ____ is protective, but also that wearing one is painful. |
| 6. | Poem about the poet's relationship with the continent his ancestors came from |
| 9. | Mark Twain's real surname (last name) |
| 11. | Dave wants one very badly, but at first he treats it like a toy. |
| 12. | The poet wasn't sure he wanted to write political poetry, so it is ironic this is probably his best-known poem. |
| 14. | Hearing one of these breaking tells Heyman that there is an engagement party on the other side of the door he is about to knock on. |
| 15. | The men in "The Open Boat" thought it was too ironic to work this hard only to be _____. |
| 16. | Mr. Ryder was once called ____ Taylor. |
| 18. | "The Storm" may still shock readers because it depicts ___ which does not destroy lives and marriages. |
| 20. | Name of the sharecropper family in "Barn Burning"; they appear in many of Faulkner's stories and novels. |
| 23. | Author of The Great Gatsby as well as one of the stories in the unit on American literature from 1914-1960 |
| 25. | Dave didn't mean to shoot one. |
| 26. | Dave leaves on one to go to a place he can be a man. |
| 28. | Author of The Waste Land |
| 29. | When Sylvy climbs a very tall ____ tree, she can see the ocean. |
| 30. | "Middle ________" is a moving poem based on a terrible part of American history, written by a poet who often wrote about historical events. |
| 31. | The narrator of "The Yellow Wall-paper" is not supposed to do this, but she does it anyway. |
| 33. | None of the men in "The Open Boat" knew what color this was. |
| 34. | Many of the works we read, particularly in the earlier part of the semester, are told at least partly in literary ____ rather than in standard English. |
| 35. | Where the aunt in "No Name Woman" lived |
| 40. | This is the title of the poem that contains the line that Maya Angelou used as the title for the first volume of autobiography. |
| 41. | Too many years to work to buy a dead mule! |
| 42. | At the end of "The Yellow Wall-Paper," the narrator creeps or ____ right over her husband's unconscious body. |
| 43. | "The River-Merchant's Wife" pretends to be one of these. |
| 44. | State Zora Neale Hurston grew up in |
| 46. | The "Notice" at the beginning of Huckleberry Finn says persons who try to find one of these in the novel will be shot. |
| 48. | Weapon Sarty's father uses |
| 50. | Instead of being a peace offering after a quarrel, the can of these in "The Storm" becomes the basis of a happy family meal. |
| 51. | Langston Hughes' poem about several of these is one of his most famous works, even though it was also the first poem for adults that he published. |
| 53. | This is where Huck Finn decides he will go. |
| 54. | Désirée is last seen headed toward one of these, carrying her baby. |
| 55. | The narrator-author of Impressions of an Indian Childhood made this on the cold ashes of the fire. |
| 57. | What did happen to her? |
| 59. | What Sarty's father attacks |
| 61. | Wrote poems in free verse, often imitating the sound of jazz or the blues in his work. |
| 63. | The real reason Heyman has not proposed marriage is because he is ___, not because he is stingy. |
| 65. | Sarty's mother knew how to clean it properly, but she wasn't allowed to do it. |
| 68. | Kate Chopin depicts a language and culture strongly influenced by ____ settlement in the lower Mississippi valley. |
| 69. | Both Wright and Faulkner write about this section of the U.S., and so does Hurston. |
| 70. | Title of a poem about a moth and a spider that raises some of the same questions raised by "Yet Do I Marvel" |
| 72. | The kindly New England persona who speaks in his poems may not be much like the poet himself. |
| 74. | The narrator of "The Yellow Wall-paper" eventually identifies herself with the ____ behind the paper. |
| 76. | Charlie ___ wants custody of his daughter Honoria. |
| 77. | Where the nameless aunt in "No Name Woman" eventually goes with her baby. |
| 78. | Besides the story we read, he also wrote an autobiography, Black Boy, and a very famous novel, Native Son (as well as other works). |