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40 Cards in this Set
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Who calls who the "Black Marauder" |
Sylvia Plath calls Ted Hughes |
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I believe I have my first sentence |
Work then... then you must eat |
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Which of the following is an example of creative nonfiction? A) The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath B) Death in the Afternoonby Ernest Hemingway C) Breakfast on Tiffany’s by Truman Capote D) Animal Farm by George Orwell E) The naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer |
B) Death in the Afternoon by Ernest Hemingway |
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Who helped Capote research in Cold Blood? |
Harper Lee |
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"You cannot find peace by avoiding life" Who says this and where? |
Virginia Woolf at a train station |
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Who was the King of Bees? |
Otto Plath |
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Which poem does this come from "There's a stake in your fat black heart, and the villagers never liked you" |
Daddy |
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Where was the movie Capote shot? |
Manitoba |
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"It was death, I chose life" Who said this in The Hours? |
Laura Brown |
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What was Plath's reaction upon visiting her fathers grave for the first time? |
Felt Cheated |
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Who said "It was a terrible experience, and I'll never get over it?" |
Truman Capote |
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It was said that photographs couldn't catch this persons charisma, only a movie camera |
Virginia Woolf |
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Which of the following books did Virginia Woolf not write? -Three Guineas -Orlando -Jacob's Room -Colossus -Mrs. Dalloway |
Colossus |
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"He's as tart as grand aunt, but in a way he is a ballsy little guy, and he is the most perfect writer of my generation" Who said this about Capote? |
Norman Mailer |
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"You are afraid and you sweat like hell, but you don't know what you're afraid of" Who says this? |
Holly Golighty |
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Who directed Sylvia?
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Christine Jeffs
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Which event was the central event of Sylvia Plath's life?
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The death of her father |
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"In me has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman rises toward her day after day like a terrible fish" From which poem does this occur?
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Mirror |
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Who wrote the essay "Frank Sinatra has a cold"
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Gay Talese |
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What was the name of the only poetry book Plath published in her lifetime?
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Colossus
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"The poet will die, the visionary." Who says this about whom?
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The Fictional Virginial Woolf (The Hours) about a character in Mrs. Dalloway |
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"My concern is that the info, you have collected is accurate, correct, and not perverted by the relator to his or her purpose for any ulterior motive." Who said this? |
Perry Smith |
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Which poet wrote "But suicides have a special language, like a carpenter they want to know which tools, they never ask why build." |
Anne Sexton |
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In The Hours, who says "There's a time to die, it may be the bird's time" |
Virginia Woolf |
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In Sylvia, Sylvia Plath says she has no subject for her poetry. What does Ted Hughes say in reply? |
"What i'm trying to say is that you've already got your subject. It's you" |
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Who directed the movie Capote? |
Bennett Miller |
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Which of the following actors is not in The Hours? -Meryl Streep -Nicole Kidman -Vanessa Redgrave -Miranda Richardson -Ed Harris |
Vanessa Redgrave |
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In the movie Sylvia, which poet's recording do Plath, Hughes, David, and Assia Wevill listen to after their tense dinner? |
Robert Lowell |
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In which 3 cities does The Hours primarily take place? |
Richmond, New York, and Los Angeles |
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In The Hours, when Richards says to Clarissa "I think i'm only staying alive to satisfy you," What does she reply? |
"That is what people do. They stay alive for each other." |
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In post WWII America which of the following activities saw an increase in activity? -The production of automobiles? -Psychoanalysis -Advertising Television watching -All of the above |
All of the above |
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Who was Sir. Leslie Stephen? |
Vanessa Bell's father |
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Who of the following was not in the Bloomsbury Group? -Duncan Grant -Ted Hughes -Lydia Lopokova -Clive Bell -Ottoline Morrell |
Ted Hughes |
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Who of the following was not a confessional poet? -Robert Lowell -W.D Snodgrass -W.H Auden -Anne Sexton -All of the above were |
W.H Auden |
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Who dreamed of a fin breaking through the surface of a "blank, vast sea"? |
Virginia Woolf |
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"If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present." |
Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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Which of the following was not written by Capote? -Other Voices, Other Rooms -The Grass Harp -To Kill a Mockingbird -Music for Chameleons -Answered Prayers |
To Kill a Mockingbird |
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In The Hours, what annoys Nellie, the maid, about Virginia? |
Virginia gives her no instructions |
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When Al Alvarez tells Plath he, too, once tried to commit suicide, what is her immediate question? |
How? |
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"I wake up between 3 and 4 because that's the worst time, and I write till dawn. I really feel like God is speaking through me." Who says this? |
Sylvia Plath |
