I've read most of those, although I was surprised that there were several I hadn't heard of. I'd read ten by high school, although about half of those were poems. We read a lot of poetry.
But, yeah, the idea that a 10th grader would know more than a couple of these is kind of ridiculous.
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You're pretty well read
You're familiar with words like 'Bildungsroman,' 'synecdoche,' and 'anagnorisis,' but perhaps not with today's updated literary curriculum.
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"The Odyssey," by Homer
I've read it
"Metamorphoses," by Ovid
I've read it
"The Nose," by Nikolai Gogol
I've never heard of it
"Candide," by Voltaire
I've read it
"Fathers and Sons," by Ivan Turgenev
I've read it
"The Gift of the Magi," by O. Henry
I've read it
"The Metamorphosis," by Franz Kafka
I've read it
"The Grapes of Wrath," by John Steinbeck
I've read it
"Fahrenheit 451," by Ray Bradbury
I've read it
"I Stand Here Ironing," by Tillie Olsen
I've never heard of it
"Things Fall Apart," by Chinua Achebe
I've heard of it
"To Kill A Mockingbird," by Harper Lee
I've read it
"The Killer Angels," by Michael Shaara
I've read it
"The Joy Luck Club," by Amy Tan
I've read part of it
"In the Time of the Butterflies," by Julia Álvarez
I've heard of it
"The Book Thief," by Marcus Zusak
I've heard of it
"Oedipus Rex," by Sophocles
I've read it
"The Tragedy of Macbeth," by William Shakespeare
I've read it
"A Doll's House," by Henrik Ibsen
I've read it
"Master Harold ... and the boys," by Athol Fugard
I've never heard of it
"Sonnet 73," by William Shakespeare
I've read it
"Song," by John Donne
I've read it
"Ozymandias," by Percy Bysshe Shelley
I've read it
"The Raven," by Edgar Allan Poe
I've read it
"We Grow Accustomed to the Dark," by Emily Dickinson
I've read it
"Loveliest of Trees," by A. E. Houseman
I've heard of it
"Lift Every Voice and Sing," by James Weldon Johnson
I've heard of it
"Yet Do I Marvel," by Countee Cullen
I've never heard it
"Musée des Beaux Arts," by Wystan Hugh Auden
I've read it
"Women," by Alice Walker
I've never heard of it
"I Am Offering This Poem to You," by Jimmy Santiago Baca
I've never heard of it
"I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," by Maya Angelou
I've read it
"Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West," by Dee Brown
I've read part of it
"Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn," by Evan S. Connell
I've heard of it
"The Story of Art, 16th Edition," by E.H. Gombrich
I've read part of it
"Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World," by Mark Kurlansky
I've read part of it
"Black, Blue and Gray: African Americans in the Civil War," by Jim Haskins
I've never heard of it