1. 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 Did You Hug A Tree Hugger Today? Twitter Accounts Twisted Irony Literary Techniques I Can Name That Work In 3 Words

2. $100 If you hugged the tree hugger who wrote, “I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable. I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world,” whom would you be hugging?

3. $100 You would be hugging Walt Whitman Bonus $200: Explain what he meant by the “barbaric yawp”

4. $200 If you hugged the tree hugger who wrote, “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation,” whom would you be hugging?

5. $200 You would be hugging Henry David Thoreau. Bonus $200: What does he mean by that quote?

6. $300 If you hugged the tree hugger who wrote, “To be great is to be misunderstood,” whom would you be hugging?

7. $300 You would be hugging Ralph Waldo Emerson Bonus $200: What does he mean by this quote?

8. $400 If you hugged the tree hugger who wrote, “Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is,” whom would you be hugging?

9. $400 You would be hugging Henry David Thoreau Bonus $200: What does he mean by that quote?

10. $500 If you hugged the tree hugger who wrote, “Accept the place the divine providence has found for you,” whom would you be hugging?

11. $500 You would be hugging Ralph Waldo Emerson Bonus $200: What does he mean by that quote?

12. $100 Whose Twitter account would most likely be @DueceOfClubs?

13. $100 John Oakhurst

14. $200 Whose Twitter account would most likely be @ladyinwhite?

15. $200 Emily Dickinson

16. $300 Whose Twitter account would most likely be @differentdrummer?

17. $300 Henry David Thoreau Bonus $100: Why would that name make sense for Thoreau?

18. $400 Whose Twitter account would most likely be @überfeminist?

19. $400 Kate Chopin

20. $500 Whose Twitter account would most likely be @untamedhawk?

21. $500 Walt Whitman Bonus $100: Why would that name make sense for Whitman?

22. $100 What is the twisted irony in the way that Dickinson describes God in “Apparently with no surprise”?

23. $100 He is an approving god. Bonus $200: What is her fear about God in “My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close”?

24. $200 What is the twisted irony in Twain’s advice to have your brother trade his chewing gum for the first $2.50 you find?

25. $200 It’s the first $2.50 that you find floating down the river on a grindstone, which will never happen.

26. $300 What is the twisted irony in the ending of Chopin’s “The Story of a Hour”?

27. $300 Brently Mallard is not dead and arrives home, which shocks and kills his wife, who was actually looking forward to a new life. And the doctors assume she has died of overjoy.

28. $400 What is the twisted irony in Mother’s Shipton’s name by the end of Harte’s short story?

29. $400 At first she was nicknamed Mother Shipton because she practiced witchcraft. But by the end of the story, she was actually more of a mother to Piney, sacrificing herself in order to give her food to her “child.”

30. $500 What is the twisted irony in Dickinson’s line “Mirth is the mail of anguish”?

31. $500 Like the wounded deer, we hide our pain behind our happiness. It is ironic how the illusion (mirth) is protecting (mail) the truth (anguish), even though we oftentimes are calling out for help secretly.

32. $100 What are two literary techniques Bierce uses to break the rules of Realism?

33. $100 Slow motion, Heightened Senses (in characters), Flashback, Surrealism

34. $200 What are the meanings of two of the symbols outside of Mrs. Mallard’s window?

35. $200 Blue sky, the peddler, the rain, spring, the sparrows, etc.

36. $300 In which Realist / Naturalist story does the author use a literary technique called a “Judas Kiss” to show betrayal?

37. $300 “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” has Oakhurst kissing the Duchess before he deserts her and Piney. Bonus $200: Why is a kiss of betrayal called a “Judas Kiss”?

38. $400 What type of sense imagery does Whitman use when he gives us his “souvenirs of democracy”?

39. $400 He uses touch sense imagery, telling us to place our hands on his poems/songs and to feel his heartbeat.

40. $500 In “Owl Creek Bridge,” the image of the sand and gravel being like rubies, emeralds, and diamonds is a reference, to what book of the Bible?

41. $500 The Book of Revelation Bonus $300: What literary term is used to describe a reference to another literary work?

42. $100 Dead Free! Dead

43. $100 Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour Bonus $200: Explain how they connect: Dead, Free!, Dead

44. $200 Breath Buzz Eyes

45. $200 Emily Dickinson’s “I heard a fly buzz when I died” Bonus $200: Explain how they connect: Breath, Buzz, Eyes

46. $300 Watch Harps Silence

47. $300 Ambrose Bierce’s “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” Bonus $300: Explain how they connect: Watch, Harps, Silence

48. $400 Figures Applause Silence

49. $400 Walt Whitman’s “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” Bonus $300: Explain how they connect: Figures, Applause, Silence

50. $500 Solitude Sun Eyeball

51. $500 Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Nature” Bonus $300: Explain how they connect: Solitude, Sun, Eyeball