Poems
What is this Christina Rosetti poem called? "When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree"
"When I am Dead"
Explain the poetic device and its effect used in this excerpt from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner': "The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, The furrow followed free."
Alliteration - repeated 'f' sounds
Define alleviate
This word means to make something less intense or severe.
A gothic poet famous for his dark and mysterious poetry and short stories.
Edgar Allen Poe
Jekyll's alter-ego
Mr. Hyde
Finish this line from a Walt Whitman poem: "Here Captain! dear father! This arm beneath your head! It is some dream that on the deck, You've fallen cold and ____"
dead
Explain the poetic device and its effect used in this excerpt from Alfred Lord Tennyson's 'The Brook': "I chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles, I bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles."
Onomatopoeia - makes the river come alive. Noisy, etc.
Define corroborate
A word meaning to confirm or give support to a statement or theory.
Finish the name of this famous Romantic poet: Emily
Emily Dickenson
The story takes place in this city.
London
Finish the line in this poem: "I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said -- 'two vast and trunkless legs of ____ Stand in the desert".
stone
Explain the poetic device and its effect used in this excerpt from Robert Burns' 'A Red, Red Rose': "O my Luve is like a red, red rose
That's newly sprung in June."
Simile. Comparing love to rose - fragrant, fertile, red (desire), blooming, beautiful etc.
Define implacable
This word means incapable of being calmed or soothed.
American poet Walt Whitman was a nurse during this conflict and was deeply impacted by it, causing it to influence his poetry.
Civil War
The lawyer and friend of Dr. Jekyll
Mr. Utterson
What is the title of the famous John Donne poem
"Death, __ not ____"
Explain the poetic device and its effect used in this excerpt from Shakespeare's play 'As You Like It' : "All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players."
metaphor - stage = world, people = actors, meaning, comedy/tragedy, free-will, audience etc.
Define loquacious
A word for someone who is talkative and likes to chat.
This modern poet writes poems like a jigsaw puzzles, fitting together strings of images and scenes to form a big idea. With the first initials 'T. S.'
T. S. Eliot
Dr. Jekyll's adversary in the realm of medicine/study
Dr. Lanyon
A poem by Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley which is named after a natural phenomenon. It says: "I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under, And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder."
"The Cloud". Will also accept "a cloud" or "cloud".
Explain the poetic device and its effect used in this excerpt from John Keats' 'To Autumn' : "Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too."
Personification - spring has human qualities, to sing. Also autumn - it has music too. It compares spring to autumn, like 'jealousy' .
Meaning harmless, this word often describes a non-threatening condition.
Lord Byron was a Romantic poetic who was notorioius for his scandalous lifestyle. When he learnt that dogs were not allowed when he was living at Trinity College in Oxford, he owned many exotic pets. Which mammal was included in this?
Explain what Jekyll's experience portrays about the nature of sin and temptation.
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