A Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. A foot.
What is a "Meter"? What is a metrical unit of poetry
100
The reason he went to Europe after he graduated from college
What is to study modern languages
100
His first wife's maiden name.
What is Mary Storer Potter
100
The number of poems he had written by the time he graduated college.
How many is 40?
200
The year he was born.
When was 1807?
200
A metrical foot used in various types of poetry.
What is an "Iamb"?
200
At 13 Longfellow published his first poem in this Portland newspaper.
What is the "Portland Gazette."
200
The number of children in his family as a child
How many is 8
200
He remained actively teaching at this institution for 18 years.
What is Harvard University?
300
Henry Longfellow's middle name.
What is Wadsworth?
300
A metrical foot consisting of two long syllables, as determined by syllable weight in classical meters, or two stressed syllables, as determined by stress in modern meters.
What is a "Spondee"?
300
The name of Henry Longfellow's very first published poem.
What is "The Battle of Lovell's Pond,"?
300
The Henry Longfellow's Second Wife and her cause of death
Who is Frances Appleton and did her dress catch fire?
300
The cause of Henry Longfellow death
What is Peritonitis (Peritonitis is an inflammation (irritation) of the peritoneum, the thin tissue that lines the inner wall of the abdomen and covers most of the abdominal organs.)?
400
In 1868-69, Oxford and this university honored him by conferring honorary degrees on him.
What is Cambridge University
400
A device that Longfellow uses to create rhythm and musicality in his poem, "The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls".
What is a Rhyme scheme?
400
The name of the college Longfellow attended at the age of 15.
Where is Bowdoin College?
400
The activities the family loved to do together
What is read avidly, drew, painted, played music, and wrote voluminously, often with flair and humor?
400
The very special gift Henry Longfellow received when he turned 72
What is the chair that bore a brass plate on the seat with an inscription?
500
In his later years, he was afflicted by this physical condition.
What is Blindness?
500
A device used here by Longfellow to discuss the passage of time: The tide rises, the tide falls The twilight darkens, the curlew calls; Along the sea sands damp and brown The traveler hastens toward the town, And the tide rises, the tide falls.
What is symbolism?
500
The name Henry Longfellow signed his first poem by.
Who is Henry?
500
The Wadsworth and Longfellow families were representative of these societies.
What is New England's modest, old-stock, cultural elite?
500
Describe Henry Longfellow due to his works of literarture
What is a famed 19th century scholar, novelist, and poet