Thomas Paine & Revolutionary Literature
Jonathan Edwards & The Great Awakening
Edgar Allan Poe
"The Black Cat"
"The Raven" and Poetic Devices
100
The birthplace of Thomas Paine.
What is England?
100
Why Edwards was released from being a pastor.
What is he named sinners in his congregation?
100
Poe's wife's name.
What is Virginia?
100
The disease the narrator succumbs to.
What is alcoholism?
100
The repetition of CONSONANT sounds.
What is alliteration?
200
Paine's most famous book.
What is Common Sense?
200
What sinners can do to save themselves.
What is nothing?
200
Who leaves red roses and cognac on Poe's grave for his birthday.
What is the "Poe Toaster"?
200
Originally, the narrator is noted as this.
What is gentle?
200
The labeling of rhyming words at the end of each line.
What is rhyme scheme?
300
The American Crisis is this.
What is the Revolutionary War?
300
Metaphor or Simile: "The wrath of God is like great waters"
What is simile?
300
The disease the killed Poe's loved ones.
What is tuberculosis (TB)?
300
Why the narrator can sleep after murdering his wife.
What is the cat is missing?
300
The narrator is doing this when the poem begins.
What is reading and falling asleep?
400
The general who ordered "The American Crisis" read to his troops.
What is George Washington?
400
Characteristics of The Great Awakening.
What is "fire and brimstone," and elevated pastoral styles?
400
The college Poe attended briefly?
What is the University of Virginia (UVA)?
400
The symbol on the second cat's chest.
What is the gallows?
400
Words that sound like sounds.
What is onomatopoeia?
500
The focus of Revolutionary Literature.
What is 1) the offenses of Britain? 2) the type of government Americans want?
500
Metaphor or simile: "There is a dreadful pit of the glowing flames of the wrath of God."
What is metaphor?
500
The genre Poe invented.
What is the detective novel?
500
Pluto is an allusion to who.
What is the Roman god of the underworld?
500
What/who does the narrator think the raven is?
What is Lenore?
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