Vocabulary
Literary Periods
Grammar
Poe
Misc.
100
This is the quality of being discerning, sound in judgement.
What is sagacity.
100
The Raven
What is Romanticism (Dark Romanticism).
100
Fragment? Every Sunday their family went hiking.
What is no.
100
"Quoth the raven ________!"
What is nevermore.
100
Your Poe paper is due...
What is Thursday.
200
Boldness; daring
What is audacity.
200
The World on the Turtle's Back
What is first encounters/Native American
200
Fix this sentence: Don't just stand there do something.
Add a coordinating conjunction after there and a comma. Add a semi-colon after there. Add a period after there.
200
Name the poem which contains the lines: "How few! yet how they creep/ Through my fingers to the deep..."
What is A Dream Within a Dream
200
It is said that Henry David Thoreau likely influenced Mahatma Gandhi and later, this important American Civil Rights leader.
What is MLK Jr.
300
Scoffing; ridicule
What is derision.
300
Self-Reliance
What is Transcendentalism/Romanticism
300
Which is most correct? I had seen a movie last Friday about space. I saw a movie last Friday about space.
What is neither.
300
Name the short story which contains the line: "TRUE! -- nervous -- very, very dreadfully nervous I had been..."
What is The Tell-Tale Heart.
300
Some central beliefs of early romantic-era writers include the belief in one’s self and the value of this thing, which many Puritans shunned for supposedly containing features of the devil, or at least unknown things, which were feared.
What is nature.
400
Concealing one's feelings or intentions.
What is dissimulation.
400
Leaves of Grass
What is Romanticism
400
Identify the predicate in this sentence: Jody went to the store.
What is went to the store.
400
This is the color of the vulture's eye in The Tell-Tale Heart.
What is blue.
400
He penned this memorable line. “Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.”
What is Ralph Waldo Emerson.
500
Unnoticed
What is unperceived.
500
The time in which The Crucible is set.
What is The Enlightenment.
500
Explain each of these: There Their They're
There = indication of location Their = indication of possession They're = contraction for they are
500
Identify the text: "Madmen know nothing."
What is The Tell-Tale Heart.
500
Casper Friedrich painted a picture called "The wanderer above the sea of..." this pervasive thing.
What is fog.
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