In “How it Feels to be Colored Me,” Hurston employs a metaphor to evaluate the effects of slavery (“sixty years in the past”) on her life. What is that metaphor?

Which of the following authors is characterized by his/her clarity of speech, simplicity of images, and folksy diction? 

In “The River-Merchant’s Wife” what image does the author use to symbolize the wife’s loneliness and longing for her husband’s return? 

In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” as the narrator loses touch with the outer world, she comes to a greater understanding of ___.

Which of the following works is about “the death of the promise of the American Dream.”

In A Streetcar Named Desire, who said, “I have always depended on the kindness of strangers”?  

Identify this work:  “ is a reaction to the racial climate of the late nineteenth century. talks about hypocrisy, deception, and the fact that black Americans often resorted to seeming content with their social circumstances. But behind all that seeming, though, is just a bunch of lies trying to cover up the fact that they were feeling pretty rotten and unable to talk about their feelings in an honest way.” 

In “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” what does Harry blame for his lack of accomplishment in writing?

What is the most salient aspect of Prufrock’s physical appearance, mentioned at least three times in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot?

What did most people assume about Richard Cory?