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Dark Romantics
Poetry
Literary Terms
Transcendentalism
Vocabulary
100
This creature interrupts the speaker's sleepless night and reminds him of a lost love in Poe's poem with the same title.
What is "The Raven"?
100
the object/idea personified in Dickinson's carriage-ride poem
What is Death?
100
comparison of two things using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
100
Richard, in "Alone in the Wilderness" lived in his cabin for 30 years. Thoreau lived in his for this long.
What is approximately two years?
100
The speaker's mood in "The Raven" can be easily summed up with this vocabulary term.
What is "melancholy"?
200
Hell is the primary symbolic association for this object in Poe's story of a jailed man in the Spanish Inquisition.
What is the pit? ("The Pit and the Pendulum")
200
The following from Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself, Number 52" is an example of what literary technique? "I depart as air."
What is simile?
200
repetition of sound at the beginning of a sequence of words or phrases
What is alliteration?
200
the meaning of the statement: "We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us."
What is "People are controlled by what they create rather than controlling their creations" ?
200
Fill in the blank: The security at Fort Knox makes entering it quite a(n) ___________ task.
What is "impregnable"?
300
The mood of "The Raven" can best be summed up with this word.
What is "despairing"? (other varieties may be accepted at teacher's discretion)
300
the "good" definition of Madness that Dickinson presents in her poem
What is "Madness = unwillingness to follow society's rules"?
300
comparison of two unlike things without using the terms "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
300
Thoreau compares people to these creatures in his piece, "Walden, or Life in the Woods."
What are ants? (also will accept railroad ties or sleepers)
300
"Widely existing" is a synonym for this vocabulary term.
What is "prevalent"?
400
The two most notable writers of the Dark Romantics. (Full names required)
Who are Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe?
400
Emily Dickinson was known as the "Belle of Amherst." Name one of the two other titles by which she is recognized.
What is "Recluse of Amherst" or "Poet of the Inner Soul"?
400
the atmosphere of a piece of literature (created by setting and characters' statements and actions in the story)
What is mood?
400
True or False: Thoreau thinks that a little bit of conformity is necessary for living a successful life.
What is false?
400
Fill in the blank: Her health remained __________ despite the chemotheraphy treatments.
What is "precarious"?
500
Mr. Hooper finally lets this person remove his veil in Hawthorne's "The Minister's Black Veil."
Who is no one? (The Reverend Mr. Clark tries to in the end when Mr. Hooper is on his deathbed, but Mr. Hooper still refuses.)
500
The people honored in Whitman's "I Hear America Singing"
Who are ordinary, blue-collar working people?
500
a seemingly contradictory statement that reveals some sort of truth
What is a paradox?
500
Name at least two of the three main characteristics we discussed of transcendentalism.
What is (1) respect/appreciation for nature, (2) independent thought, (3) dislike of civilization and city life?
500
"Not flowing or moving" is the definition for this adjective.
What is "stagnant"?