American Lit Poetry/Gothic Elements
What are the four examples of elements of gothic style?
1. A bleak or remote setting 2. A gruesome or violent plot 3. Psychologically of physically tormented characters 4. Supernatural elements
How many years was ____ asleep?
20
Who dies in a kingdom by the sea?
Annabelle Lee
Who wrote: Thanatopsis, To A Waterfowl
Bryant
Who wrote: To A Waterfowl
Bryant
Term: When a narrator tells a reader what a character is like
Direct Characterization
Term: narrator tells the reader what the character is like
Direct Characterization
Term: when a poem has lines ending with words that sound the same
End rhyme
Term: using "I" or "we"
First person
Who is the office boy in Bartleby the Scrivener?
Ginger nut
What is another name for "Natty Bumppo"?
Hawkeye
Who were the fireside poets?
Holmes Lowell Longfellow Bryant Whittier
What is the family tree of Usher like?
Incest
Term: When an author reveals personality traits through words thoughts and actions
Indirect Characterization
Term: Personality traits are revealed through the words, thoughts, and action of the characters
Indirect characterization
Term: a rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next.
Internal Rhyme
What kind of rhyme? "Once upon a midnight dreary, now I wander, weak and weary"
Internal rhyme
Which author is from the town of Cooperstown?
James Fenimore Cooper
Who wrote The Last of the Mohicans?
James Fenimore Cooper
Who is the narrator mourning in the Raven?
Lenore (his wife)
Who wrote: Psalm of Life
Longfellow
Who wrote: Tide Rises, Tide Falls
Longfellow
What are 2 fireside poets?
Longfellow and Whittier
Who wrote: To a Dandelion
Lowell
Term: What are the three types of poetry?
Lyric, Epic (narrative), and Dramatic
Who was the man who lived among cannibals who wrote Bartleby the Scrivner and Moby Dick
Melville
How do Usher and the narrator know each other?
Old friends
Who wrote: Old Ironsides
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Term: All knowing; narrator tells the story
Omniscient Point of View
Term: What are the three forms of literature?
Poetry, drama, and prose
Which character in the House of Usher can't stand bring light or harsh noise?
Rodrick
Term: using "you" least common point of view
Second Person
Edgar Allan Poe believed that short stories should have what effect?
Single Effect
Term: Edgar Allan Poe's theory about peoples' thoughts about a short story
Single Effect
What works were written by Edgar Allan Poe?
The Fall of the House of Usher The Raven Annabel Lee
Term: using "he", "she", or "it" can be limited or omniscient
Third person
How are Rodrick and Madeline related?
Twins
Who was the last mohican?
Uncas
"Diedrich Knickerbocker" in a pseudonym for who?
Washington Irving
Where is this quote from: "Baringly the foulers eye might mark the distant flight to do thee wrong"
Waterfowl
Who wrote Snowbound?
Whittier
Who wrote: Snowbound
Whittier
What was the name of Rip Van Winkle's dog?
Wolf
What were Madelyn's weird symptoms?
cataleptic or catatonic
At the end of Bartleby the Scrivener, the narrator found out that Bartleby worked where?
the dead letter office
