Time Period
When the romantic period took place
When is 1830-1870?
Edgar Allan Poe’s most famous work
What is The Raven?
An absence of light, casted in The Raven
What is a shadow?
The subject of personification in Emily Dickinson’s poem
What is Death?
The common name of a black bird common in the northern hemisphere
What is a raven?
The major war taking taking place during the romantic period
What is the Civil War?
The view Romantic poets/artists had about nature
What is wonder, awe, exaltation, etc.?
A literary device, used in The Raven, that implicitly compares two things
What is a metaphor?
The literary device, used in Because I could not stop for Death, that describes multiple uses of the same letter or sound in close proximity.
What is alliteration?
Topic(s) that ravens are associated with
What is Death/Prophecy/Wisdom?
The continent where Romanticism originated
What is Europe?
Walt Whitman’s most famous work
What is Leaves of Grass
The word choice and descriptions in The Raven
What is dramatic and vivid?
The place/places passed by in Because I could not stop for Death
What is a school/field/house?
The group/family that ravens belong to
What are corvids?
The revolution occurring during the Romantic Period
What is the First American Industrial Revolution?
The literary style that followed Romanticism
What is Realism?
Another name for the Greek goddess Athena
Who is Pallas?
The naturally occurring substance made by spiders
What is gossamer?
The lifespan of a raven
What is 10-15 years?
What is 13 states?
Five common themes/ideas in Romanticism
Solitude, the supernatural, nature, emotion, the great unknown.
The rhyme scheme of the excerpt of The Raven
What is AB-AB-BB?
What is Eternity?
The difference between a raven and a crow