2. Who Said It? Dark Romanti cs Annabel Lee The Fall of the House The Raven 10 20 30 40 50

3. Question 1 - 10  “I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.”

4. Answer 1 – 10 Henry David Thoreau

5. 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.”

6. Answer 1 – 20  Ralph Waldo Emerson

7. Question 1 - 30 “Our life is frittered away be detail.”

8. Answer 1 – 30  Henry David Thoreau

9. Question 1 - 40  “Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity.”

10. Answer 1 – 40  Henry David Thoreau

11. 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.”

12. Answer 1 – 50  Ralph Waldo Emerson

13. Question 2 - 10  True or False?  The Transcendentalists saw divine goodness and beauty beneath everyday reality.

14. Answer 2 – 10  True

15. Question 2 - 20 “Human events contain signs and symbols of spiritual truths.” Who believed this? Transcendentalists? Dark Romanticists? Both?

16. Answer 2 – 20  BOTH!

17. 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

18. Answer 2 – 30  ALL!

19. Question 2 - 40 How is Roderick Usher an example of the “conflicted” Dark Romantic hero?

20. 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)

21. Question 2 - 50 What is the major difference between the Transcendentalist/Rom anticist belief about nature and Dark Romanticist’s belief?

22. 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)

23. Question 3 - 10 What are seraphs?

24. Answer 3 – 10 Angels

25. Question 3 - 20 How (not why) does Annabel Lee die?

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

27. Question 3 - 30  Why (not how) does Annabel Lee die?

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

29. Question 3 - 40 According to the narrator, where is Annabel Lee’s sepulcher located?

30. Answer 3 – 40 In a kingdom by the sea

31. Question 3 - 50 “neither the angels in heaven above, nor the demons down under the sea, can...” what??

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

33. Question 4 - 10 How does the narrator know Roderick Usher?

34. Answer 4 – 10 They were childhood companions.

35. Question 4 - 20 What two things do the “house of Usher” stand for?

36. Answer 4 – 20 The Usher house & the Usher family

37. Question 4 - 30 What would the “sentience of all vegetable” things mean?

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

39. Question 4 - 40 Name two elements of Roderick Usher’s malady.

40. 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

41. Question 4 - 50 When Roderick Usher enters the narrator’s room during the storm, what does he ask?

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

43. Question 5 - 10  What is the narrator of “The Raven” trying to do?

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

45. Question 5 - 20 When the narrator asks the raven what his name is, what does the raven tell him?

46. Answer 5 – 20 Nevermore

47. Question 5 - 30 The narrator assumes that the raven has come from ________.

48. Answer 5 – 30 Hell/Underworld

49. 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.”

50. Answer 5 – 40 Consonance

51. Question 5 - 50 The poem indicates that the raven’s main purpose is to __________ (think deeply about this hard question)

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