Short Stories

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Memorize these and recognize 25.2% of all Short Stories clues.

1 Walter Mitty 6x

2 Rip Van Winkle 5x

3 O. Henry 5x

4 Stephen Crane 4x

5 (Edgar Allan) Poe 3x

6 The tiger 2x

7 New Orleans 2x

8 Miss Marple 2x

9 John Steinbeck 2x

10 J.D. Salinger 2x

11 Isaac Bashevis Singer 2x

12 Ernest Hemingway 2x

13 Dorothy Parker 2x

14 Bartleby 2x

15 "The Lottery" 2x

16 Eudora Welty 2x

17 Nathaniel Hawthorne 2x

18 a leaf 2x

19 Franz Kafka 2x

Sample Clues

In the last paragraph, this James Thurber guy goes from smoking by a drugstore to bravely facing a firing squad

Walter Mitty

This Washington Irving character had "an insuperable aversion to all kinds of profitable labor"

Rip Van Winkle

While in prison for embezzlement, he published his 1st short story, "Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking"

O. Henry

After a bad Hessian session, this schoolmaster is never seen in Sleepy Hollow again

Stephen Crane

Montresor seeks revenge on wine connoisseur Fortunato in his 1846 tale "The Cask of Amontillado"

(Edgar Allan) Poe

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Other 84

Walter Mitty (6) Rip Van Winkle (5) O. Henry (5) Stephen Crane (4) The tiger (2) Dorothy Parker (2) Eudora Welty (2) a leaf (2) New Orleans (2) "The Lottery" (2)

American Literature 26

J.D. Salinger (2) John Steinbeck (2) Ernest Hemingway (2) "The Red Pony" (1) Pilgrim's Progress (1) the celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County (1) Bartleby (1) Willa Cather (1) the Jazz Age (1) Fitzgerald (1)

Poetry 8

(Edgar Allan) Poe (3) Rue Morgue (1) "The Masque of the Red Death" (1) "The Pit and the Pendulum" (1) "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1) "The Purloined Letter" (1)

Mystery / Thriller 7

Miss Marple (2) Stephen King (1) Sherlock Holmes (1) scarlet (1) Sam Spade (1) G.K. Chesterton (1)

Shakespeare 1

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1)

Children's Literature 1

Ichabod Crane (1)

British Literature 1

(Rudyard) Kipling (1)