5 Questions
Match the following literary works with their authors:
Walden = Thoreau My Bondage and My Freedom = Douglass Usher = Allen Poe A Slave Girl = Jacobs
Match the following literary works with their authors:
One's Self I Sing = Whitman I Hear America Sing = Whitman A Little Madness in Spring = Emily Dickinson The Jumping Frog = Mark Twain
Match the following literary works with their authors:
The Hollow Men = Eliot Old Man at the Bridge = Hemingway Man Will Prevail = Faulkner Theme for English B = Hughes
Match the following literary works with their authors:
Lady Lazarus = Sylvia Plath Poetry is Not a Luxury = Audre Lorde No Name Woman = Maxine Hong Kingston Maggie = Stephen Crane
Match the following literary works with their authors:
The Brain is Wider than the Sky = Emily Dickinson The Soul Selects Its Own Society = Emily Dickinson The Jumping Frog = Mark Twain One's Self I Sing = Whitman
Study Notes
American Literary Works
- "Walden" is a work by Henry David Thoreau
- "My Bondage and My Freedom" is a work by Frederick Douglass
- "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" is a work by Harriet Jacobs
American Poetry
- "Usher" is a work by Edgar Allan Poe
- "One's Self I Sing" and "I Hear America Sing" are poems by Walt Whitman
- "A Little Madness in Spring", "The Brain is Wider than the Sky", and "The Soul Selects Its Own Society" are poems by Emily Dickinson
American Short Stories
- "The Jumping Frog" is a short story by Mark Twain
- "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets" is a novella by Stephen Crane
20th Century American Literature
- "The Hollow Men" is a poem by T.S. Eliot
- "Old Man at the Bridge" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway
- "Man Will Prevail" is a work by William Faulkner
- "Theme for English B" is a poem by Langston Hughes
- "Lady Lazarus" is a poem by Sylvia Plath
- "Poetry is Not a Luxury" is an essay by Audre Lorde
- "No Name Woman" is a chapter from "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
Test your knowledge of American literature with this quiz featuring famous works and authors, including Thoreau, Douglass, Poe, and more.
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