Vocab
This poetic form has a simple, familiar language; it evokes folk culture/wisdom and experiences of common people.
What is a Ballad?
This author wrote "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?"
Who is Frederick Douglass?
In which work does a woman suffer from post-partum depression and consequently hallucinations?
What is "The Yellow Wallpaper" ?
This poem displays the use of Dramatic Monologue.
What is "My Last Duchess" ?
"She shut the cold out and the storm, And kneeled and made the cheerless grate Blaze up, and all the cottage warm"
What is "Porphyria's Lover"?
This artistic movement prioritized artificiality and questioned the moral purpose of life and art.
What is Decadence?
This author wrote, "I felt a funeral- In my brain"
Who is Emily Dickinson?
In which work does a man get exiled from his religious community?
What is "Silas Marner"?
This poem demonstrates the use of Free Verse
What is "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"?
"And now We roam in Sovereign Woods - And now We hunt the Doe - And every time I speak for Him The Mountains straight reply -"
What is "My life had stood- a Loaded Gun"
This form of dramatic comedy is lighthearted in its characters and plot.
What is a Farce?
This author wrote "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry."
Who is Walt Whitman?
The content of this poem is a metaphor for female sexuality.
What is "Goblin Market"?
This play serves as an example of decadence in an art form.
What is "The Importance of Being Earnest"?
"I sang his name instead of a song,
Over and over, I sang his name,
Upward and downward, I drew it along,
My various notes- the same! the same!"
What is "Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point"?
This is the disbelief in government as well as Civil Law for the belief that it keeps the everyday citizen under state surveillance.
What is Anarchism?
This author wrote "Bury Me in a Free Land."
Who is Frances Ellen Watkins Harper?
In which work does the speaker lament on what a specific day means to him?
What is "What to the slave is the Fourth of July"?
This novel uses Realism throughout.
What is "Silas Marner"?
"Evening by evening
Among the brookside rushes,
Laura bow’d her head to hear,
Lizzie veil’d her blushes"
What is "Goblin Market"?
In this poetic form, the speaker addresses a third audience (while the reader just happens to be listening), and the speech usually reveals a devious side to the character.
What is Dramatic Monologue?
This author wrote "The Signs of the Times."
Who is Thomas Carlyle?
In this poem, the speaker has a revelation about time and space while on a boat.
What is "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"?
This work is an example of Gothic literature.
What is "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"?
"I could not rest if I heard the tread
Of a coffle gang to the shambles led,
And the mother’s shriek of wild despair
Rise like a curse on the trembling air."
What is "Bury Me in a Free Land"?