Authors
The author of Leaves of Grass. Prison inmates read aloud Verse 24 on video.
Who is Walt Whitman?
Spirituals, Gospel, Labor Songs, Blues.
What are examples of African American poetry?
An American literary movement about nonconformity and the connection between man, God, and nature.
What is transcendentalism?
A brief statement that compares two elements using "as" or "like".
What is a simile?
An English poet whose life resembles that of modern rock stars.
Who was Lord Byron?
E. A. Poe wrote about the death of this character in a kingdom by the sea.
Who is Annabel Lee?
Literature featuring grotesque characters, bizarre situations, and violent events.
What is Gothic literature?
A literary movement that focused on the ordinary individual instead of the aristocracy.
What is romanticism?
When inanimate objects are described as having animate qualities.
What is personification?
Two (one with Victorian Sponge Cake)
How many poetry sessions did we have this semester?
The author of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Who is Washington Irving?
A narrative that focuses on a specific social class or group's social customs, etiquette, and conventions.
What is a novel of manners?
A ghostly double of a person. It reflects the idea of split personality in the late Victorian era.
What is a doppelgänger?
An object representing something abstract.
What is a symbol?
Verily, the esteemed Brontë sisters bestow upon thee a grand bounty of 400 sovereign points, simply for gracing this very gathering with thy most welcome presence.
You're welcome!
A coming-of-age story, where we witness a character's education and growth.
What is a bildungsroman?
Telegraph, phonograph, typewriting machines, steam-powered trains, etc.
What are examples of nineteenth-century technological inventions in Stoker's Dracula?
An exaggeration.
What is a hyperbole?
In one of Thomas Hardy's novels, a character hangs from a cliff, and that's where this expression was created.
What is a cliffhanger?
A Victorian poet who wrote love sonnets and social poetry, including The Cry of Children.
Who is Elizabeth Barrett Browning?
A type of narrative shorter than a novel that depicts a whole universe.
What is a novella?
The French Revolution and the American Revolution.
Which are the two main revolutions related to the Romantic movement? (1776, 1789)
A writer expresses two ideas of equal worth, usually with the same syntactic structure.
What is parallelism?
In the United States, a political revolution led to social reform, whereas in England, authors emphasized an artistic revolution.
What is the difference between British and American romanticism?