Edgar Allen Poe, Yo
This kind of bird visits the narrator in a fever dream of a poem.
(A) Raven
This word means big, gigantic, massive, huge.
Colossal
This was a movement in upper Manhattan that characterized an entire genre of poetry and stories from predominantly Black artists.
The Harlem Renaissance
Rip, despite being a good guy, is very ______.
Lazy
"I once met a traveler from an antique land who said" WHAT stands in the desert?
A broken statue.
This kind of bird is referenced in Edgar Allen Poe's "Tell-Tale Heart" regarding a man's ________ eye.
Vulture
This word means stubborn; unwilling to change one’s mind. Like Mr. Dempsey when you ask him for candy for no reason!
Obstinate
The main idea of the Harlem Renaissance was ______.
Resilience
Rip falls asleep for how many years?
Twenty
The Monkey's Paw grants how many wishes?
Three (also would accept tres)
A ticking in this madman's home is believed (by him) to be....
A beating heart
This word means friendly and pleasant.
Amiable
Still I ____
Rise
Rip goes to the ______ to escape Dame Van Winkle.
Mountains
Lottery, drawing, meeting
Tell-Tale Heart's narrator said he's.....
Not crazy
This word means: watchful; on the lookout for danger or trouble. Like Mad-Eye Moody.
Vigilant
This is the metaphor from "Mother to Son." Life is a _______
Staircase
What game are the Dutchmen playing in the Kaatskill Mountains?
Ninepins
Art helps communities tell the....
TRUTH
How many days did he watch the old man before he tries to take the Vulture Eye?
Three
This word means: calm and still. Like a tranquil nature scene.
Placid.
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
____________________________
Or does it explode? (Must answer line exactly as written)
What war was fought while Rip was asleep?
The Revolutionary War
The mood of Ozymandias is lonely and full of _____.
Irony