| A | B |
|---|
| Death, as a gentleman | "Because I could not stop for Death" |
| Todd Anderson | "Dead Poets' Society" |
| a man who lived in a cabin for 2 years | Walden |
| Socrates, Copernicus, & a foolish consistency | "Self-Reliance" |
| a woman who loves music | "A Wagner Matinee" |
| an astonishingly beautiful flirt | "Winter Dreams" |
| a man who daydreams | "Walter Mitty" |
| a cheating wife | "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" |
| a [dead] man who never knew his real mother | "Hamilton Greene" |
| a number of dead people who reveal truths about life | Spoon River Anthology |
| a pharmacist and a box of arsenic | "A Rose for Emily" |
| a woman looking forward to her future | "The Story of an Hour" |
| an anaconda and an English earl | "The Lowest Animal" |
| a boy who traded bread for reading lessons | "My Bondage, My Freedom" |
| a dead leader and a fearful trip | "O Captain, my Captain" |
| Jim Smiley, a man who bets on anything | "The Celebrated Jumping Frog..." |
| John Brown and an uncooperative horse | "The Story without an End" |
| a stone cutter (gravestone engraver) | "Richard Bone" |
| a mother who lived in a crawl space for 7 years | "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" |
