Literary Terms
"On" "Sun"
What is slant rhyme?
What are Heinrich Heine's dates?
Where was he born and raised?
Dusseldorf
What was Heinrich's name before he converted to Christianity?
Who is Harry?
Who is 'the girl' who sits on the rocks on the Rhine?
Who is the Lorelei?
"The air grows cool in the twilight,
And softly the Rhine flows on;
The peak of a mountain sparkles
Beneath the setting sun."
What is imagery?
What religion did Heine reluctantly convert to due to jobs being closed to Jews?
What is Protestantism?
Where did Heine move after his father's business failed?
Where is Hamburg?
What was Heine's first book?
What is Travel Pictures?
What was the original language of the Lorelei?
What is German?
What is allusion?
Poetry
What river is the poem setting?
What is the Rhine River?
Who was Heinrich's third cousin once removed?
Who is Karl Marx?
What is the Lorelei doing to put the sailors in a trance?
What is "singing an evensong?"
What kind of poem is 'The Lorelei?'
What is a lyric poem?
What works are Heine best known for?
What is The Lorelei and The Book of Poems?
Where does the Rhine River begin and flow through?
What is it begins in Switzerland and flows through Germany and the Netherlands?
Heine's poetry was set to music by which two composers for double points?
Who are Schumann and Schubert?
How did the sailors in the poem die?
What is because of the Lorelei beauty and song?
Give an example of one of the four literary terms we talked about in this lesson.
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How did Heinrich Heine die?
What is chronic lead poisoning?
What city did Heine settle in in 1836?
Where is Paris, France?
What happened to Heine due to his illness?
What is paralysis and blindness?
What haunts the speaker of the poem?
What is the death of the sailors?