Langston Hughes: "Where are we going, Walt Whitman? The doors close in an hour. Which way does your beard point tonight? (I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd.) Will we walk all night through solitary streets? The trees add shade to shade, lights out in the houses, we'll both be lonely."
Katherine Anne Porter: "Well, sir, Edward never did get back no more that evenin' to the Dixie Bar. No, pal, uh-hum! 'Cause we nabbed him. When he come back down the street in his evenin' clothes and all, with a swell black overcoat on that I wished I had, just a-tippin' so as not to slip up and fall on the snow, I grabbed him.”
Kurt Vonnegut: "By my calculations, the professor was about fifty-five times more powerful than a Nagasaki-type atomic bomb at the time he went into hiding. He was not bluffing when, on the eve of 'Operation Brainstorm,' he told General Honus Barker: 'Sitting here at the dinner table, I'm pretty sure I can flatten anything on earth-from Joe Louis to the Great Wall of China.'"
Robert Frost: "Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun; And makes gaps even two can pass a breast."
Ernest Hemingway: "We were all at the hospital every afternoon, and there were different ways of walking across the town through the dusk to the hospital. Two of the ways were alongside canals, but they were long. Always, though, you crossed a bridge across a canal to enter the hospital."
Based on what you've learned about the authors' styles, match each short story excerpt with its author from the list below. (2 points)
Author's List:
Ernest Hemingway
Langston Hughes
Katherine Anne Porter
Kurt Vonnegut
Allen Ginsberg
Robert Frost
Quotes:
"Where are we going, Walt Whitman? The doors
close in an hour. Which way does your beard point
tonight?
(I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the
supermarket and feel absurd.)
Will we walk all night through solitary streets? The
trees add shade to shade, lights out in the houses,
we'll both be lonely."
"Well, sir, Edward never did get back no more that
evenin' to the Dixie Bar. No, pal, uh-hum! 'Cause
we nabbed him. When he come back down the
street in his evenin' clothes and all, with a swell
black overcoat on that I wished I had, just a-tippin'
so as not to slip up and fall on the snow, I grabbed
him.”
"By my calculations, the professor was about fifty-
five times more powerful than a Nagasaki-type
atomic bomb at the time he went into hiding. He
was not bluffing when, on the eve of 'Operation
Brainstorm,' he told General Honus Barker: 'Sitting
here at the dinner table, I'm pretty sure I can flatten
anything on earth-from Joe Louis to the Great
Wall of China.""
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun;
And makes gaps even two can pass a breast.
"We were all at the hospital every afternoon, and
there were different ways of walking across the
town through the dusk to the hospital. Two of the
ways were alongside canals, but they were long.
Always, though, you crossed a bridge across a
canal to enter the hospital."
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