Literary Devices are my Vices
The line, "While I nodded, nearly napping" uses this literary device.
What is alliteration?
This is the nickname for Shakespeare.
What is the Bard?
This is the word repeated by the raven.
What is nevermore?
This is the name of Poe's first famous work.
What is "The Raven?"
This words means "annoyance" and is what Egeus says to Theseus in Act 1, Scene 1 ("Full of________ come I with complaint against my daughter Hermia!").
What is vexation?
Bottom uses this literary device when he says, "I will move storms!"
What is hyperbole?
This was the queen that reigned during Shakespeare's time.
Who is Queen Elizabeth I?
Fill in the missing word:
"Once upon a midnight______."
What is dreary?
Poe was born in this city.
What is Boston?
The word that Poe uses that means "unsuccessfully."
What is "vainly?"
The curtains in "The Raven" are described as "sad" and "uncertain," primarily using this literary device.
What is personification?
This is another word for the Elizabethan era and means "rebirth."
What is renaissance?
Fill in the missing word: "Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the _______ December"
What is bleak?
Poe was dismissed from this university.
What is West Point?
The word Poe uses in "The Raven" that means end.
What is "surcease?"
This literary device is emphasized here: "While a nodded, nearly NAPPING, suddenly there came a TAPPING."
What is internal rhyme?
This is the technical name for the language in which Shakespeare wrote.
What is Early Modern English?
The raven perches on top of the bust of this goddess.
Who is Pallas (or Athena)?
This sickness took the life of both Poe's mother and wife.
What is tuberculosis?
This is the word Poe uses for "tricking," saying "Then this ebony bird ________ my sad fancy into smiling."
What is "beguiling?"
The reference in "The Raven" to the "night's Plutonian shore" is an example of this literary device.
What is allusion?
Three moons of Uranus are named after these characters from A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Who is Puck, Oberon, and Titania?
This is what the narrator of "The Raven" is reading at the beginning of the poem (must be the exact words).
What is "forgotten lore?"
This football is named in honor of Poe.
What is the Baltimore Ravens?
This is the technical, fancy word for "word choice."