Edgar Allan Poe
What tragic event happened to Poe when he was 3 years old?
What is ¨His mother died and his father gave him away?"
What are common themes in Emerson's work?
What is individualism and what is the inherent goodness of men?
What was Mark Twain's real name?
Who is Samuel Clemens?
Which poet wrote "O Captain, My Captain?"
Who is Walt Whitman?
"The warm wind whispered through the trees," is an example of what?
What is alliteration?
Edgar Allan Poe was the father of what type of literature?
What is the modern detective story?
Emerson was the father and leader of what movement of the 1800s?
What is Transcendentalism?
Name one of Mark Twain's famous works of literature.
What is "Tom Sawyer" or what is "Huckleberry Finn?"
In the poem, "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time," what is the theme?
What is to make the most of your time as a young person?
"The balloon flew to the moon," is an example of what?
What is assonance?
Poe's parents named him after a character in the work of what famous author?
Who is Shakespeare?
Which college did Emerson attend?
What is Harvard?
In his essay, "The Damned Human Race," why does Twain say that an anaconda is a higher form of life than an earl?
What is "because the anaconda kills only eat what it needs?"
Shakespeare's "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?" is an example of what type of poem?
What is a sonnet?
To say "society is a joint-stock company," is an example of what?
What is metaphor?
What is thought to be the cause of Poe's early death?
What is alcoholism, heart failure, or rabies?
Emerson was called "the _________ of Concord"?
What is sage?
Where was Twain born and raised?
Where is Hannibal, Missouri?
In "The Road Not Taken," did Frost take the more or less traveled path?
What is the less traveled path?
To say "imitation is suicide," is an example of what?
What is hyperbole?
What was the name of Poe's young wife who was also his cousin?
Who is Virginia?
What was Emerson's most famous work of literature?
What is "Self-Reliance?"
Mark Twain was not a Transcendentalist, what was he?
What is a realist?
In Lord Byron's poem, "She Walks in Beauty, Like the Night," What is the word tress refer to in the line, "which waves in every raven tress?"
What is the woman's hair?
Iambic pentameter is an example of what?
What is meter?