12. 5. agrarian … American writers who published in Nashville, Tennessee, between 1922 and 1925 The Fugitive , a LITTLE MAGAZINE of poetry and some criticism championing agrarian REGIONALISM but attacking “the old high-castle Brahmins of the Old South.”
27. 10. analogy 3. find is to kind as feign is to: pane pretend line mean 4. pane is to pain as weigh is to: scale pounds weight way 5. bring is to brought as sing is to: sang melody song record
28. 10. analogy 6. dime is to tenth as quarter is to: twenty-five fourth home coin 7. plates is to dishes as arms is to: Legs hands farms weapons rhlschool.com
131. “ Literature is a form of permanent insurrection. Its mission is to arouse, to disturb, to alarm, to keep men in a constant state of dissatisfaction with themselves.” -Mario Vargas Llosa
154. “ A great literature is …chiefly the product of doubting and inquiring minds in revolt against the immoveable certainties of the nation.” -H.L. Mencken
160. 63. limerick There once was a man from Nantucket, Who kept all of his cash in a bucket, But his daughter, named Nan, Ran away with a man, And as for the bucket, Nantucket. But he followed the pair to Pawtucket, The man and the girl with the bucket; And he said to the man, He was welcome to Nan, But as for the bucket, Pawtucket .
224. “ Ernest: What is the difference between literature and journalism? Gilbert: Oh! journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read.” -Oscar Wilde
249. “ One may recollect generally that certain thoughts or facts are to be found in a certain book; but without a good index such a recollection may hardly be more available than that of the cabin boy,who knew where the ship’s tea kettle was because he saw it fall overboard.” -Horace Binney
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251. 96. Pulitzer Prize John Steinbeck 1940 Grapes of Wrath Margaret Mitchell 1937 Gone with the Wind
274. “ What one knows best is…what one has learned not from books but as a result of books, through the reflections to which they have given rise.” -Chamfort
286. 110. schema (cont.) Laurence Fishburne from Othello
287. “ The easiest books are generally the best, for whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language certainly does not think clearly.” -Lord Chesterfield