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Lochinvar
Annabel Lee & The Raven
The Song of the Wandering Aengus
The Wreck of the Hesperus
Poetic Terms
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Which description best characterizes Lochinvar? Brave and handsome sorrowful and loving proud and demanding funny and faithful
Brave & handsome
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How does the language of “The Raven” create the poem’s mood?
The language creates this gloomy, dark, pensive mood that is also dark and foreboding.
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How do readers know that "The Song of Wandering Aengus" is not written in free verse?
It features end rhymes.
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Who wrote "The Wreck of the Hesperus"?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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What is a simile?
A literary device that compares 2 things using like or as.
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What is the conflict present in Lochinvar?
Lochinvar's love (Ellen) is about to marry another man. Also--Ellen's family does not approve of Lochinvar as a suitor.
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What effect does the repetition of the phrase "in this kingdom by the sea" have in Poe's "Annabel Lee"?
It lends the poem a fairy-tale atmosphere.
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What kind of figurative language does Yeats use when he describes Aengus's wanderings "Through hollow lands and hilly lands"?
alliteration, to emphasize the many places Aengus has wandered
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In "The Wreck of the Hesperus," what does the name of the reef, Norman's Woe, tell readers?
Other ships have been wrecked on this reef in the past.
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What is mood?
The emotions or feelings that are conveyed in a literary work
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To which part of the poem do Lochinvar's haste to get to Ellen's wedding and his behavior once he arrives belong?
rising action
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How do lines like "we loved with a love that was more than love" and "can ever dissever my soul from the soul" shape the mood of "Annabel Lee"?
They create a sing-song, childlike mood.
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Why does the speaker in Yeats's poem go to "blow the fire aflame" when he returns to his home?
He plans to cook the trout.
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Which word best describes the skipper in "The Wreck of the Hesperus"?
arrogant
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What is imagery?
Language that creates a mental picture by appealing to the senses, that makes readers see, hear, smell, taste, or feel things in their imagination; for example, "the coal-black night," "the stinging cold," "the rapping and tapping of rain on the roof"
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What action leads to the conflict in Scott's "Lochinvar"?
Ellen's father rejects Lochinvar's request to marry Ellen.
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How do the speaker's interactions with the raven in Poe's "The Raven" change over the course of the poem?
From amused curiosity to rage.
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Who is Aengus in Celtic mythology?
The celtic god of love, youth, poetry.
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Read these lines from Longfellow's poem: "The snow fell hissing in the brine, / And the billows frothed like yeast." Which word in these lines contributes most to the sense of coming danger?
hissing
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What is an allusion?
A reference to a familiar literary or historical person or event, used to make an idea more easily understood
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Why is Lochinvar considered a narrative poem?
It tells a story of a hero who deals with a conflict. The conflict is resolved in the poem.
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What reason does the speaker in "Annabel Lee" give to explain why his beloved was taken from him?
Their love had made the angels in heaven jealous.
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The speaker in Yeats's poem says that he and the "glimmering girl" will walk together "till time and times are done." What must the speaker believe about the girl?
She is magical and immortal.
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Longfellow uses "her" in the poem to describe?
The skipper's daughter and the sea.
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What is a metaphor?
When you compare 2 things (that are not alike) without using like or as.