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1 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 Authors “Rip Van Winkle” “Thanatopsis”/ “Snowbound” “Tide”/ “Cross” “Nautilus”/ “Ironsides”

2 Washington Irving Irving’s most famous piece of writing

3 Washington Irving Answer: What is The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

4 John Greenleaf Whittier “It wouldn’t bring in food” - reference Whittier’s father is making

5 John Greenleaf Whittier Answer: What is formal education

6 William Cullen Bryant Title Bryant held - “_______ of _________ _________”

7 William Cullen Bryant Answer: What is “Father of American Poetry”

8 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Longfellow was the first American to have a marble image in the Poets’ Corner here

9 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Answer: What is Westminister Abbey

10 Oliver Wendell Holmes Medical term he named

11 Oliver Wendell Holmes Answer: What is anesthesia

12 “Rip Van Winkle” Length of sleep

13 “Rip Van Winkle” Answer: What is 20 years

14 “Rip Van Winkle” Person Rip lived with at the end of the story

15 “Rip Van Winkle” Answer: Who is his daughter

16 “Rip Van Winkle” Created the peels of thunder

17 “Rip Van Winkle” Answer: What is nine-pin (bowling)

18 “Rip Van Winkle” Two places friends are now

19 “Rip Van Winkle” Answer: What is died in war -or- Congress

20 “Rip Van Winkle” Change in the picture at the hotel/inn

21 “Rip Van Winkle” Answer: What is King George to George Washington

22 From “Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyll” The young narrator compares the tunnel to this

23 From “Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyll” Answer: What is Aladdin’s cave

24 “Thanatopsis” The title means

25 “Thanatopsis” Answer: What is seeing death

26 From “Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyll” Two “foreign” objects from outside after the snow

27 From “Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyll” Answer: What is “Chinese roof” and “Pisa’s leaning miracle”

28 From “Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyll” Definition of idyll

29 From “Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyll” Answer: What is a nostalgic work describing a pleasant rural scene or homey setting

30 “Thanatopsis” Two things that decorate the tomb

31 “Thanatopsis” Answer: What is hills, vales, woods, rivers, brooks, ocean

32 “The Cross of Snow” Object Longfellow sees to make him start this poem

33 “The Cross of Snow” Answer: What is his wife’s picture

34 “The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls” One of the interpretations of what this poem means

35 “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

36 “The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls” Symbol of the waves

37 “The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls” Answer: What is hands of a mother/child/God

38 “The Cross of Snow” Symbol of the cross on his chest

39 “The Cross of Snow” Answer: What is the burden of his wife’s death - not being able to save her

40 “The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls” Definition of iambic meter

41 “The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls” Answer: What is an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable

42 “Old Ironsides” The purpose in writing this poem

43 “Old Ironsindes” Answer: What is to save the USS Constitution from being scrapped

44 “The Chambered Nautilus” The extended metaphor

45 “The Chambered Nautilus” Answer: What is comparing the growing of the nautilus to the growing of a human/development of the soul

46 “Old Ironsides” Holmes says this should happen instead of it being scrapped

47 “Old Ironsides” Answer: What is it should sink - so it stays in one piece

48 “The Chambered Nautilus” Definition of apostrophe

49 “The Chambered Nautlius” Answer: What is a direct address to an object or someone who is not present

50 “The Chambered Nautilus” Three human dwellings noted in stanza two

51 “The Chambered Nautilus” Answer: What is cell, tenant, and crypt


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