Historical Context
This historical event doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
This poem gave the name to the NFL team of Baltimore.
What is "The Raven"?
A comparison that uses the words "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
Who is Sacajawea?
Factories became much more common during this time, especially in this region of the United States.
What is the Northeast/New England?
"The Devil and Tom Walker" is considered a piece of literature from this subgenre of the American Renaissance.
What is Dark Romanticism?
This poem was written in remembrance of Abraham Lincoln.
What is "O Captain! My Captain!"?
The repetition of a consonant sounds at the beginning of consecutive words.
What is alliteration?
This poet wrote "The Song of Hiawatha" and "The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls."
Who is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?
In 1849, this caused many Americans to move westward.
What is the Gold Rush (of 1849)?
This character suffered from delusions, mental health issues, paranoia, and more.
Who is Roderick Usher?
This poem discussed the connection between human death and nature.
What is "Thanatopsis"?
The paragraph of poetry.
What is a stanza?
This time-period invention changed the way people and products were moved.
What is the steamboat?
This president sent Lewis and Clark on their westward expedition.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This author wrote "The Devil and Tom Walker" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
Who is Washington Irving?
This poem has the refrain, "In a kingdom by the sea."
What is "Annabel Lee"?
What is an allusion?
This type of architecture is used to characterize the dark literature of this time.
What is Gothic?
"Old Ironsides" was written about Constitution, a battleship from which war?
What is the Battle of 1812?
This state is the setting of "The Devil and Tom Walker."
What is Massachusetts?
This poem focuses on imagery of footprints disappearing on the shore.
What is "The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls"?
An extreme exaggeration.
What is a hyperbole?
When a line of poetry continues to the next line without the break of punctuation.
What is enjambment?