The Highwayman
The author of "The Highwayman"
Who is Alfred Noyes
The author Of "The Cremation of Sam McGee"
Who is Robert W. Service?
Author of "Holidays"
Who is Jamaica Kincaid?
The author of "Annabelle Lee"
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
A literary device from "Sam McGee" in the line, "...where the cotton blooms and blows."
What is alliteration?
The stable-hand who betrays Bess and the Highwayman by telling the British the Highwayman is coming.
Who is Tim the Ostler?
The location of the "Alice May," the boat, where Sam McGee was cremated in the poem.
What is Lake Lebarge?
The fruit that the narrator considers buying before returning to wandering around the house.
What is a peach?
The location of Annabelle Lee's tomb following her death at the end of the poem.
What is a "sepulcher by the sea"?
A literary device from "Annabelle Lee" in the line, "That the wind came out of the cloud by night,/Chilling and killing my Annabelle Lee."
The Highwayman is shot down on the highway trying to avenge Bess's death.
What is the climax?
The Yukon territory during the Gold Rush.
What is the setting and time period of the poem?
The narrator considers falling asleep and dreaming of anywhere else.
What is the resolution?
Annabelle Lee and the narrator are in love and living in a kingdom by the sea.
What is the rising action?
A literary device in "The Highwayman" in the line, "...His face burnt like a brand".
What is a similie?
One is a fixed sentence structure, and the other is written in fragments and chunks
What is the difference between prose and verse?
One is the lesson learned from the narrative, and the other is an idea or motivation for the story.
What is difference between theme and motif?
"When you do nothing for yourself, you are never actually achieving anything."
What is a "theme" in "Holidays?"
The narrator falls asleep each night inside the tomb of Annabel Lee.
What is the solution?
A literary device in "Holidays" from the line, "I sit on the porch facing the mountains. The porch is airy and spacious. I am the only person sitting on the porch."
What is imagery?
Used in the line, "tlot-tlot-tlot."
What is alliteration OR onomatopoeia?
Literary device used in the line, "He was always cold, but the land of gold seemed to hold him like a spell?"
What is simile?
Literary device used in the line, "Oh, sensation. I am filled with sensation."
What is repetition?
Literary device used in the line, "...the moon never beams without bringing me dreams"
What is personification?
A literary device from "Annabelle Lee" in the line, "With a love that the winged seraphs in heaven/Coveted her and me."
What is foreshadowing?