The Devil and Tom Walker
The place Tom Walker runs into the devil.
What is the swamp/forest?
The way our narrator knows Roderick Usher.
What is a childhood friend?
The word repeated by the raven throughout the poem.
What is "nevermore"?
This is the name of the minister who shocks his congregation by wearing a black veil.
Who is Reverend Hooper?
The most important component of life between society and solititude.
What is both society and solitude?
The name of the Captain that buried the forbidden treasure.
Who is Captain Kidd?
What is the letter sent by his childhood friend?
What the speaker first asks the Raven.
What is "What is your name?"?
Reverend Hooper first appears wearing the black veil while delivering a sermon on this subject.
What is secret sin?
The idea that we live "meanly like ants" is an example of this form of transcendental thought.
What is the importance of nature?
The job the devil asks him to do that he accepts.
What is a usurer?
The effect that Poe creates by describing the "decayed trees" and "sacred tarn"
What is gloom, fear, suspense?
The main topics of the poem "The Raven."
What are love and loss?
The place that Reverend Hooper goes immediately after his first sermon.
What is a funeral?
The fact that Thoreau went off to live in the woods by himself is an example of this form of transcendental thought.
What is self-reliance?
The job the devil asks Tom Walker to do that he denies.
What is a slave trader?
The reason the narrator cannot sleep the last night of the House of Usher.
What is his anxieties and fear of the unfamiliar sounds?
The name of the statue on top of the chamber door.
What is the bust of Pallas?
This character, Reverend Hooper’s fiancée, tries to convince him to remove the veil but ultimately leaves him.
Who is Elizabeth?
What is non-conformity?
The body parts of the wife found at her death.
(Must have BOTH for full points!)
What are the heart and liver?
The time of Madeline's death.
What is when Madeline falls on Roderick's body at the end of the story?
What the narrator is doing when he first hears the raven.
What is reading to keep his mind off Lenore?
As Hooper lies on his deathbed, he makes this argument about the veil’s meaning.
What is "I look around me, and, lo! on every visage a Black Veil!" (meaning everyone hides their sins)?
The person that Mr. Goblisch refers to as a modern example of Transcendentalism.
Who is Aaron Rodgers?