Stuff from The Raven
The narrator's lost girlfriend
Who is Lenore?
The author of "Paul Revere's Ride"
Who is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?
An indirect or passive reference, often a Biblical or mythological reference
What is an allusion?
What term means the quality of being pleasing to the ear, especially through a harmonious combination of words.
What is euphony?
The national poet of Scotland
Who is Robert Burns?
The goddess represented in the "pallid bust of Pallas"
Who is Athena?
The author of "Old Ironsides"
Who is Oliver Wendell Holmes?
A ghostly double of a living person that haunts its living counterpart
What is a doppelgänger?
An adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned, sometimes used as an insult.
What is an epithet?
Romantic poet who may have fathered a child with his sister.
Who is Lord Byron?
The month that The Raven takes place
What is December?
The author of The Tiger?
Who is William Blake?
The unnecessary use of many words to express an idea.
What is circumlocution?
A vivid, often dramatic, verbal description of a visual work of art, either real or imagined.
What is an ekphrastic?
Poet whose wife Mary wrote "Frankenstein"
Who is Percy Bysshe Shelley?
The word, that starts with Q, that means "to drink"
What is "quaff"?
Who is Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
A literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from childhood to adulthood.
What is a bildungsroman?
The repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences.
What is an epistrophe? (This is similar to anaphora and parallelism.)
The city in Maryland whose football team honors Poe's most famous work.
What is the Baltimore Ravens?
A fictional drug that you take to forget your sorrow. The narrator begs the raven for this.
What is "nepenthe"?
The author of over 100 sonnets (and many classic plays!)
Who is William Shakespeare?
An inversion of the usual order of words or clauses
What is an anastrophe?
A mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.
What is a euphemism?
The US state that the Fireside poets all lived in.
What is Massachusetts?