Authors
Vocab
Ids
Associations
Excerpts
100

Silas Marner author ...

What is George Elliot ( Mary Ann Evans)?

100

Anarchism 

The belief that there should be no government and that all forms of government are oppressive in some way. Focused on liberty and personal freedom, not chaos and disorder.  
100

Dustan/Duncey Cass

Main antagonist of Silas Marner by George Elliot
100

Free Verse

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry by Walt Whitman

100

"Nevermore"

The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe

200

Goblin Market Author...

What is Christina Rosetti?

200

Gothic 

Literature genre based on supernatural terror. Originally called this because of its association with medieval architecture. The genre is less associated with a historical period and more with an eerie and gloomy atmosphere

200

Fruits

Symbol of temptation and corruption in A Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti 

200

Ballad

I felt a funeral in my Brain & My life had stood- a loaded gun by Emily Dickson

200

"I’d shudder and start if I heard the bay

Of bloodhounds seizing their human prey,

And I heard the captive plead in vain

As they bound afresh his galling chain."


Bury Me in a Free Land by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

300
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekkyl and Mr. Hyde

What is Robert Louis Stevenson

300

dramatic monologue 

poetic form through which we are transported into the speaker's pov as they address an unknown audience, giving us deeper insight into the character's psyche. 

300

Bust of Pallas 

The Statue of Athena the Raven sits on in the Raven by Edgar Allen Poe (symbol of the rational mind)

300

Farce

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

300

" My own, own child! I could not bear

To look in his face, it was so white;" 

Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point by Elizabeth Browning

400

Runaway Slaves at Pilgrim's point author

What is Elizabeth Barret Browning

400

Farce

A light-hearted dramatic comedy that draws humor from an over-the-top/exaggerated plot and often mocks social conventions.
400

Hertfordshire

Rural setting of the Importance of being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

400

Realism

Silas Marner by George Elliot

400

"What is it then between us?

What is the count of the scores or hundreds of years between us?"

Crossing on Brooklyn Ferry by Walt Whitman

500

The Sign of the Times author

What is Thomas Carlyle

500

Free Verse 

A poetic form that doesn't follow any particular structure/rhyme scheme, instead the author is free to format the lines however best fits the theme. 

500

John Utterson

A lawyer who investigates Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.

500

Dramatic Monologue

My Last Duchess and Porphyria's Lover by Robert Browning

500

"E’en then would be some stooping; and I choose

Never to stoop."

The Last Duchess by Robert Brownin

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