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| In a Pulitzer Prize winning novel, this lawyer and father represents a black man accused of rape in the Jim Crow south. | |
| This reclusive poet eloped with a fellow poet that she had been writing, prompting her father to disinherit her, as he had done to her 11 siblings who also wed without his consent. | |
| In Homer's The Odyssey, this goddess from the island of Ogygia holds Odysseus hostage, keeping him as her lover until ordered to set him free. | |
| Dante Alighieri's 14th century masterpiece describing his journey through hell, purgatory, and heaven. | |
| He seeks revenge after he is confined to a dungeon prison for 14 years for a crime he did not commit. | |
| After this novelist sent Ernest Hemingway a ten-page critique letter for A Farewell to Arms, Hemingway wrote three words in the margin in response: 'Kiss my a@$' | |
| This literary genre is often characterized by dark, gloomy settings as well as psychological and supernatural elements. | |
| Japanese poem structured with three lines, the first and third with 5 syllables and the second with 7. | |
| A statement in which the meaning is opposite of the literal meaning or an action that is opposite of what would be expected. | |
| This Lewis Carroll nonsense poem begins, 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves...' | |
| Creator of the Beat Generation who is said to have written 'On the Road' on scroll paper in just 20 days. | |
| This collection of poems in 1798 by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge catalyzed the English romantic literary movement. | |
| American novel that originally received mixed reviews about sailor Ishmael's adventure on the Pequod. | |
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| C.S. Lewis created a fantasy world in this place where animals speak. | |
| Literary device that refers to a word that makes the sound it describes, such as 'pop' or 'buzz.' | |
| This novelist, short-story writer, and poet committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning after being untreated for depression. | |
| Refers to a stanza or poem consisting of four lines. | |
| This title character spent 28 years on a tropical island before being rescued. | |
| Last name of the protagonist in an Orwell novel. It took some time, but eventually He Loved Big Brother. | |
| Type of drama that ends in the destruction of the protagonist, such as in Shakespeare's Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear, and Othello. | |
| Also a novel by Sir Thomas More, this word refers to a place with a perfect socio-political system and literally means both 'no place' and 'good place.' | |
| Author of Slaughterhouse-five, Cat's Cradle, Breakfast of Champions, and more, he died in 2007 of injuries from a fall... but so it goes. | |
| He penned Leaves of Grass, a collection of poems sharply criticized by many for their often explicit sexual nature. | |
| Setting in Kubla Khan, an opium-inspired Coleridge poem with a 'stately pleasure-dome.' | |
| These were savage, dirty, and uncivilized creatures from Gulliver's travels. | |
| This mythological figure has appeared in many literary works, from Ovid's Metamorphoses to Homer's The Odyssey. | |
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