Time Period
Authors & Themes
The Raven
Because I Could Not Stop For Death
A Raven
100

When the romantic period took place

When is 1830-1870?

100

Edgar Allan Poe’s most famous work

What is The Raven?

100

An absence of light, casted in The Raven

What is a shadow?

100

The subject of personification in Emily Dickinson’s poem

What is Death?

100

The common name of a black bird common in the northern hemisphere 

What is a raven?

200

The major war taking taking place during the romantic period

What is the Civil War?

200

The view Romantic poets/artists had about nature

What is wonder, awe, exaltation, etc.?

200

A literary device, used in The Raven, that implicitly compares two things

What is a metaphor?

200

The literary device, used in Because I could not stop for Death, that describes multiple uses of the same letter or sound in close proximity.

What is alliteration?

200

Topic(s) that ravens are associated with 

What is Death/Prophecy/Wisdom?

300

The continent where Romanticism originated

What is Europe?

300

Walt Whitman’s most famous work

What is Leaves of Grass

300

The word choice and descriptions in The Raven

What is dramatic and vivid?

300

The place/places passed by in Because I could not stop for Death

What is a school/field/house?

300

The group/family that ravens belong to

What are corvids?

400

The revolution occurring during the Romantic Period

What is the First American Industrial Revolution?

400

The literary style that followed Romanticism

What is Realism?

400

Another name for the Greek goddess Athena

Who is Pallas?

400

The naturally occurring substance made by spiders

What is gossamer?

400

The lifespan of a raven

What is 10-15 years?

500
The number of states entering the union between 1830-1870

What is 13 states?

500

Five common themes/ideas in Romanticism

Solitude, the supernatural, nature, emotion, the great unknown.

500

The rhyme scheme of the excerpt of The Raven

What is AB-AB-BB?

500
A measurement of time & the last word in Because I could not stop for Death

What is Eternity?

500

The difference between a raven and a crow

What are size, tail feather length, beak shape, or sound?