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200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 Authors “Rip Van Winkle” “Thanatopsis”/ “Snowbound” “Tide”/ “Cross” “Nautilus”/ “Ironsides”
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Washington Irving Irving’s most famous piece of writing
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Washington Irving Answer: What is The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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John Greenleaf Whittier “It wouldn’t bring in food” - reference Whittier’s father is making
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John Greenleaf Whittier Answer: What is formal education
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William Cullen Bryant Title Bryant held - “_______ of _________ _________”
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William Cullen Bryant Answer: What is “Father of American Poetry”
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Longfellow was the first American to have a marble image in the Poets’ Corner here
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Answer: What is Westminister Abbey
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Medical term he named
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Answer: What is anesthesia
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“Rip Van Winkle” Length of sleep
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“Rip Van Winkle” Answer: What is 20 years
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“Rip Van Winkle” Person Rip lived with at the end of the story
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“Rip Van Winkle” Answer: Who is his daughter
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“Rip Van Winkle” Created the peels of thunder
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“Rip Van Winkle” Answer: What is nine-pin (bowling)
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“Rip Van Winkle” Two places friends are now
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“Rip Van Winkle” Answer: What is died in war -or- Congress
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“Rip Van Winkle” Change in the picture at the hotel/inn
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“Rip Van Winkle” Answer: What is King George to George Washington
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From “Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyll” The young narrator compares the tunnel to this
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From “Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyll” Answer: What is Aladdin’s cave
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“Thanatopsis” The title means
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“Thanatopsis” Answer: What is seeing death
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From “Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyll” Two “foreign” objects from outside after the snow
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From “Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyll” Answer: What is “Chinese roof” and “Pisa’s leaning miracle”
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From “Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyll” Definition of idyll
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From “Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyll” Answer: What is a nostalgic work describing a pleasant rural scene or homey setting
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“Thanatopsis” Two things that decorate the tomb
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“Thanatopsis” Answer: What is hills, vales, woods, rivers, brooks, ocean
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“The Cross of Snow” Object Longfellow sees to make him start this poem
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“The Cross of Snow” Answer: What is his wife’s picture
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“The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls” One of the interpretations of what this poem means
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“The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls” Answer: What is some things change and some things stay the same -or- The past is erased - start new/move on
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“The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls” Symbol of the waves
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“The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls” Answer: What is hands of a mother/child/God
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“The Cross of Snow” Symbol of the cross on his chest
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“The Cross of Snow” Answer: What is the burden of his wife’s death - not being able to save her
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“The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls” Definition of iambic meter
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“The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls” Answer: What is an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
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“Old Ironsides” The purpose in writing this poem
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“Old Ironsindes” Answer: What is to save the USS Constitution from being scrapped
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“The Chambered Nautilus” The extended metaphor
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“The Chambered Nautilus” Answer: What is comparing the growing of the nautilus to the growing of a human/development of the soul
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“Old Ironsides” Holmes says this should happen instead of it being scrapped
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“Old Ironsides” Answer: What is it should sink - so it stays in one piece
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“The Chambered Nautilus” Definition of apostrophe
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“The Chambered Nautlius” Answer: What is a direct address to an object or someone who is not present
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“The Chambered Nautilus” Three human dwellings noted in stanza two
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“The Chambered Nautilus” Answer: What is cell, tenant, and crypt
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