Who Said It? Dark Romanti cs Annabel Lee The Fall of the House The Raven

Question  “I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.”

Answer 1 – 10 Henry David Thoreau

Question “To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men, ---that is genius.”

Answer 1 – 20  Ralph Waldo Emerson

Question “Our life is frittered away be detail.”

Answer 1 – 30  Henry David Thoreau

Question  “Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity.”

Answer 1 – 40  Henry David Thoreau

Question  “The highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they thought.”

Answer 1 – 50  Ralph Waldo Emerson

Question  True or False?  The Transcendentalists saw divine goodness and beauty beneath everyday reality.

Answer 2 – 10  True

Question “Human events contain signs and symbols of spiritual truths.” Who believed this? Transcendentalists? Dark Romanticists? Both?

Answer 2 – 20  BOTH!

Question Which of these are elements of Dark Romanticism?  Drafty, old family houses/castle  Mystery and suspense, finding dark secrets  Omens, curses, dreams, legends

Answer 2 – 30  ALL!

Question How is Roderick Usher an example of the “conflicted” Dark Romantic hero?

Answer 2 – 40 He loves his sister, but seems to recognize and hate the evil of incest. (that the House of Usher is built upon)

Question What is the major difference between the Transcendentalist/Rom anticist belief about nature and Dark Romanticist’s belief?

Answer 2 – 50 Romanticists/Transcende ntalists believed nature was good and taught good lessons. Dark Romanticists wrote of nature “turned bad.” (Fungus on Usher house)

Question What are seraphs?

Answer 3 – 10 Angels

Question How (not why) does Annabel Lee die?

Answer 3 – 20 “A wind blew out of a cloud... chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.”

Question  Why (not how) does Annabel Lee die?

Answer 3 – 30 “The angels, not half so happy in heaven, went envying her and me.”

Question According to the narrator, where is Annabel Lee’s sepulcher located?

Answer 3 – 40 In a kingdom by the sea

Question “neither the angels in heaven above, nor the demons down under the sea, can...” what??

Answer 3 – 50  “ever dissever my soul from the soul of the beautiful Annabel Lee.”

Question How does the narrator know Roderick Usher?

Answer 4 – 10 They were childhood companions.

Question What two things do the “house of Usher” stand for?

Answer 4 – 20 The Usher house & the Usher family

Question What would the “sentience of all vegetable” things mean?

Answer 4 – 30 Vegetable things (plants, etc.) have feelings.

Question Name two elements of Roderick Usher’s malady.

Answer 4 – Morbid acuteness of the senses 2. Anomalous species of fear 3. Superstitious impressions in regard to the dwelling 4. Gloom from evidently approaching dissolution of much beloved sister

Question When Roderick Usher enters the narrator’s room during the storm, what does he ask?

Answer 4 – 50 “And have you not seen it?” (What do you think “it” is?) (no extra points)

Question  What is the narrator of “The Raven” trying to do?

Answer 5 – 10  Get over the death of his love Lenora— “surcease of sorrow”

Question When the narrator asks the raven what his name is, what does the raven tell him?

Answer 5 – 20 Nevermore

Question The narrator assumes that the raven has come from ________.

Answer 5 – 30 Hell/Underworld

Question What poetic device is indicated here? “While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.”

Answer 5 – 40 Consonance

Question The poem indicates that the raven’s main purpose is to __________ (think deeply about this hard question)

Answer 5 – 50  Eliminate all the speaker’s hopes of seeing Lenore again.