Author
Literary Movement
Suggested Work(s)
Washington Irving
Early Romanticism
“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
“Rip Van Winkle”
“The Devil and Tom Walker” (p. 368)
Edgar Allan Poe
Dark Romanticism
(Gothic Literature)
“The Raven”
“The Fall of the House of Usher” (p. 410)
“The Pit and the Pendulum”
“The Masque of the Red Death” (p. 444)
“The Cask of Amontillado”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Dark Romanticism
(Gothic Literature)
“Young Goodman Brown”
“The Minister’s Black Veil” (p. 468)
Walt Whitman
Romanticism
Realism
“O Captain, My Captain”
“Cavalry Crossing a Ford”
“When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”
Emily Dickinson
Romanticism
Realism
“Because I Could Not Stop for Death” (p. 548)
“I Heard a Fly Buzz when I Died” (p. 553)
Stephen Crane
Realism
Naturalism
“The Open Boat” (p. 734)
Ambrose Bierce
Realism
“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” (p. 602)
Mark Twain
Realism
Local Color
“The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” (p. 683)
Choose two poems
Must do both poems
Author
Literary Movement
Suggested Work(s)
Bret Harte
Realism
Local Color
“The Outcasts of Poker Flat” (p. 696)
Jack London
Naturalism
“To Build a Fire”
Kate Chopin
Realism
Local Color
“Desiree’s Baby”
“The Storm”
“The Story of an Hour” (p. 782)
Edith Wharton
Realism
“Roman Fever”
“The Other Two”
Sarah Orne Jewett
Realism
Local Color
“A White Heron”
“A Native of Winby”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Realism
“The Yellow Wallpaper” (p. 796)
Willa Cather
Realism
Local Color
“Paul’s Case”