This sound is the sound that most often ends a like of “The Raven.”
What is or?
100
This brings the narrator to the Ushers’s home.
What is a letter from Roderick Usher?
100
He wrote dark, psychological short stories and poems – like modern-day horror films, they help readers or viewers escape from their everyday lives.
Who is [Edgar Allan] Poe?
100
Any text that glorifies the rise of this way of living is probably not romantic.
What is city living?
200
This woman was apparently the sweetheart of the narrator of “The Raven.”
Who is Lenore?
200
This character is still alive at the end of the story.
Who is the narrator?
200
The ultimate story of escapism, this writer’s story has the main character escaping from his life for a long, 20-year sleep!
Who is Irving?
200
He wrote about the promises of the city of Philadelphia.
Who is Ben Franklin?
300
When the raven enters, he sits on this object.
What is a statue of the goddess Athena (above the door)?
300
Roderick has a condition that heightens these.
What are his senses?
300
This element of romanticism includes being able to dream up a world that is not there.
What is imagination?
300
He wrote an essay challenging Revolutionary War soldiers to fight courageously against the British.
Who is Thomas Paine?
400
This word ends 11 of the 18 stanzas of “The Raven.”
What is nevermore?
400
Madeline has a condition that results in these states.
What are cataleptical (or catatonic) states?
400
The romantics especially liked setting scenes stories in places described as this word, leaving behind any glorification of cities or industrial progress.
What is nature or exotic?
500
The narrator asks the raven for this, but the raven refuses.
What is relief from grief (over Lenore)?
500
This crumbles on the night that Madeline and Roderick die.
What is the house?
500
Earlier texts might have appealed to logic and reason, but the romantic texts mostly appeal to this.