The house Emily Dickinson and her family lived in.
What is "The Homestead"
100
Ahmerst, Massachusetts.
Where was Emily born?
100
a piece of writing that partakes of the nature of both speech and song that is nearly always rhythmical, usually metaphorical, and often exhibits such formal elements as meter, rhyme, and stanzaic structure.
What is a poem?
100
Females getting and an education
What is exceptional; however, it was not unusual in Amherst?
100
The style of writing Dickinson wrote in.
What is American Poetry?
200
Lavinia and William Austin
What is her siblings?
200
Filled with illness and the death of others
What is Dickinson's last years
200
The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities
What is symbolism?
200
Amherst College
What is the modern name for the school Dickson attended?
200
place where some of her work was published anonymously.
What is the newspaper?
300
Congress
What government position did Emily's father hold for one term?
300
May 15 1886.
What is the day Dickinson died?
300
A poem’s subject is the topic of the poem, or what the poem is about, while the _____ is an idea that the poem expresses about the subject or uses the subject to explore
What is theme?
300
She officially left school
What happened at the age 18?
300
Where Dickinson sent most of her poems.
What is her close relatives?
400
Tried to restrict the reading material in the house
Who is her strict father?
400
The month she was born
What is December?
400
The place she did most of her writing
What is her bedroom?
400
Illness and depression
Why did she miss extended amounts of time during her school years?
400
Where Dickinson wrote many of her poems.
What is booklets?
500
Susan Gilbert
Who is William Austin's wife?
500
Amherst Academy
What is the school Dickinson attended?
500
Two recurring ideas in Dickinson's work
What is death and immortality?
500
The first place Dickinson received her education. Only stayed fir one year
What is Mount Holyoke Female Seminary?
500
At the age of 35 the number of brief but influential stanzas she had written.