Identify the AUTHOR of the following passage: He was a slaver of souls in the twentieth century. He was a killer and a liar and a thief, but that didn’t matter to me. […] My domination of him came from a personal conflict we were having. I didn’t want to be another one of his slaves. I was foolish enough to believe that I could take his money and keep my freedom.

Identify the AUTHOR of the following passage: [T]he formal features of the ruin are situated in an ambiguous zone, whereby what remains is defined by what is absent.

Identify the AUTHOR of the following passage: The ghosts shudder, but they do not leave. They sway with open mouths again. Kayla raises one arm in the air, palm up, like she’s trying to soothe Casper, but the ghosts don’t still, don’t rise, don’t ascend and disappear. They stay. So Kayla begins to sing, a song a mismatched, half-garbled words, nothing I can understand. […] And the ghosts open their mouths wider and their faces fold at the edges so they look like they’re crying, but they can’t. 

Identify the AUTHOR of the following passage: The heterotopia is capable of juxtaposing in a single real place several spaces, several sites that are in themselves incompatible.

Identify the CHARACTER represented in the following passage: ____ leaned himself wearily against the wall of the upstairs hall, his head resting against the gold frame of an engraving of a ruin. “I keep thinking of this house as my own future property,” he said, […] I keep telling myself that it will belong to me someday, and I keep asking myself why.” He gestured at the length of the hall. “If I had a passion for doors,” he said, “or gilded clocks, or miniatures; if I wanted a Turkish corner of my own, I would very likely regard Hill House as a fairyland of beauty.”

Identify the AUTHOR of the following passage: This house, which seemed somehow to have formed itself, flying together into its own pattern under the hands of its builders, fitting itself into its own construction of lines and angles, reared its great head back against the sky without concession to humanity. It was a house without kindness, never meant to be lived in, not a fit place for people or for love or for hope. Exorcism cannot alter the countenance of a house.

Identify the AUTHOR of the following passage: Francis Marion Tarwater’s uncle had been dead for only half a day when the boy got too drunk to finish digging his grave and a Negro named Buford Munson, who had come to get a jug filled, had to finish it and drag the body from the breakfast table where it was still sitting and bury it in a decent and Christian way, with the sign of its Savior at the head of the grave and enough dirt on top to keep the dogs from digging it up. 

Identify the CHARACTER represented in the following passage: _______’s surprise might have deepened into some uneasiness had he not been a person of singularly un-distrustful good nature, not liable, except on extraordinary and repeated incentives, and hardly then, to indulge in personal alarms, any way involving the imputation of malign evil in man.

Cassandra’s mother told her, “You know you are in love when your heart beats fast and you experience that unique trembling feeling inside.” This remark best illustrates the:

Two-year-old Dirk’s sentences—“Dad come,” “Mom laugh,” and “Truck gone”—are examples of: