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Who Said It? Dark Romanti cs Annabel Lee The Fall of the House The Raven 10 20 30 40 50
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Question 1 - 10 “I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.”
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Answer 1 – 10 Henry David Thoreau
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Question 1 - 20 “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.”
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Answer 1 – 20 Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Question 1 - 30 “Our life is frittered away be detail.”
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Answer 1 – 30 Henry David Thoreau
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Question 1 - 40 “Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity.”
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Answer 1 – 40 Henry David Thoreau
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Question 1 - 50 “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.”
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Answer 1 – 50 Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Question 2 - 10 True or False? The Transcendentalists saw divine goodness and beauty beneath everyday reality.
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Answer 2 – 10 True
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Question 2 - 20 “Human events contain signs and symbols of spiritual truths.” Who believed this? Transcendentalists? Dark Romanticists? Both?
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Answer 2 – 20 BOTH!
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Question 2 - 30 Which of these are elements of Dark Romanticism? Drafty, old family houses/castle Mystery and suspense, finding dark secrets Omens, curses, dreams, legends
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Answer 2 – 30 ALL!
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Question 2 - 40 How is Roderick Usher an example of the “conflicted” Dark Romantic hero?
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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)
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Question 2 - 50 What is the major difference between the Transcendentalist/Rom anticist belief about nature and Dark Romanticist’s belief?
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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)
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Question 3 - 10 What are seraphs?
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Answer 3 – 10 Angels
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Question 3 - 20 How (not why) does Annabel Lee die?
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Answer 3 – 20 “A wind blew out of a cloud... chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.”
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Question 3 - 30 Why (not how) does Annabel Lee die?
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Answer 3 – 30 “The angels, not half so happy in heaven, went envying her and me.”
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Question 3 - 40 According to the narrator, where is Annabel Lee’s sepulcher located?
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Answer 3 – 40 In a kingdom by the sea
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Question 3 - 50 “neither the angels in heaven above, nor the demons down under the sea, can...” what??
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Answer 3 – 50 “ever dissever my soul from the soul of the beautiful Annabel Lee.”
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Question 4 - 10 How does the narrator know Roderick Usher?
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Answer 4 – 10 They were childhood companions.
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Question 4 - 20 What two things do the “house of Usher” stand for?
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Answer 4 – 20 The Usher house & the Usher family
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Question 4 - 30 What would the “sentience of all vegetable” things mean?
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Answer 4 – 30 Vegetable things (plants, etc.) have feelings.
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Question 4 - 40 Name two elements of Roderick Usher’s malady.
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Answer 4 – 40 1. 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
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Question 4 - 50 When Roderick Usher enters the narrator’s room during the storm, what does he ask?
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Answer 4 – 50 “And have you not seen it?” (What do you think “it” is?) (no extra points)
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Question 5 - 10 What is the narrator of “The Raven” trying to do?
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Answer 5 – 10 Get over the death of his love Lenora— “surcease of sorrow”
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Question 5 - 20 When the narrator asks the raven what his name is, what does the raven tell him?
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Answer 5 – 20 Nevermore
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Question 5 - 30 The narrator assumes that the raven has come from ________.
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Answer 5 – 30 Hell/Underworld
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Question 5 - 40 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.”
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Answer 5 – 40 Consonance
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Question 5 - 50 The poem indicates that the raven’s main purpose is to __________ (think deeply about this hard question)
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Answer 5 – 50 Eliminate all the speaker’s hopes of seeing Lenore again.
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