Authors & Works
William Rose Benét was of what nationality?
Who is American?
What was the only thing the raven said in Poe’s poem The Raven?
What is “Nevermore”?
In what town did Silas Marner live?
What is Raveloe?
Who was married to Silas’s fiancée?
Who is William Dane?
An exaggeration used to emphasize a truth.
What is overstatement?
Who wrote The Erl-king, based on an old German legend?
Who is Johann Wolfgang von Goethe?
In The Deserted House, Tennyson compared a deserted house to what?
What is a dead body?
What was the name of the place where Silas was born and visited after his gold was found?
What is Lantern Yard?
Who was Eppie’s godmother?
Who is Dolly Winthrop?
Words which appeal to our senses.
What is imagery?
Who wrote The Folly of Being Comforted?
Who is William Butler Yeats?
In It Sifts from Leaden Sieves, what is it?
What is snow?
Who was Godfrey Cass’s daughter?
Who is Eppie?
Who was the parish clerk in Silas Marner?
Who is Mr. Macey?
An implied comparison in which one thing is described in terms of another.
What is a metaphor?
Which poet wrote The Road Not Taken?
Who is Robert Frost?
In The Tell-Tale Heart, what physical feature caused the narrator to want to kill the old man?
What is his evil eye?
What was Platero?
What is a donkey?
Who was the skeleton found in the Stone-pit?
Who is Dunstan Cass?
Addressing an inanimate object as if it were alive, or addressing an absent person as if present.
What is apostrophe?
What was George Eliot’s real name?
Who is Mary Ann Evans?
Who solves the mystery of The Red-Headed League?
Who is Sherlock Holmes?
Who said, “When a man turns a blessing from his door, it falls to them as take it in”?
Who is Silas Marner?
Who was the landlord of the Rainbow Inn?
Who is Mr. Snell?
A word that has meaning in itself but also represents something beyond itself.
What is a symbol?