Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Question 1

a 70-gun British Royal Navy ship launched in 1748

Answer 1

Somerset, British man-of-war

Question 2

a temporary encampment in an unsheltered area

Answer 2

bivouac

Question 3

gloomy, dark, shadowy

Answer 3

sombre

Question 4

Dust thou art, to dust returnest

Answer 4

Genesis 3:19. Man was formed out of the ground, and he shall return to it in death.

Question 5

an assembled group; collection

Answer 5

muster

Question 6

a Boston silversmith and patriot in the American Revolution

Answer 6

Paul Revere

Question 7

to prove more power than opposing forces

Answer 7

prevail

Question 8

of the highest spiritual, moral, or intellectual worth

Answer 8

sublime

Question 9

Of peace on earth, good will to men

Answer 9

a phrase from the annunciation to the shepherds by an angel about the birth of Jesus - in Luke 2

Question 10

bold, brave; firm, resolute

Answer 10

stout

Question 11

the rhythm of “Paul Revere’s Ride,” meant to suggest the galloping of a horse

Answer 11

anapestic tetrameter

Question 12

open resistance; challenge or disobedience

Answer 12

defiance

Question 13

a narrative poem written by a single poet in deliberate imitation of the form, language, and spirit of the folk ballad

Answer 13

literary ballad

Question 14

ghost-like

Answer 14

spectral

Question 15

tall, upright structures on a ship that hold the sails

Answer 15

mast and spar

Question 16

The title, “A Psalm of Life” suggests that the poem will feature what kind of attitude or perspective about life?

Answer 16

positive; affirming

Question 17

“Life is real! Life is earnest! … Not enjoyment, and not sorrow”

Answer 17

anaphora

Question 18

“Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!”

This opening line features what kind of exordium?

Answer 18

a challenge

Question 19

"Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
\_\_\_ on the sand of time;
\_\_\_, that perhaps another,
Sailing o'er life's solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again."
Supply the missing word.

Answer 19

footprints

Question 20

How does Longfellow feel about the view that “life is but an empty dream”?

Answer 20

He resists it, and instead affirms the opposite.

Question 21

What biblical phrase does the speaker associate with the song of the bells?

Answer 21

of peace on earth, good will to men

Question 22

“Then pealed the ___ more loud and deep:
‘God is not dead, nor doth He sleep;
The wrong shall fail, the right prevail”
Supply the missing word.

Answer 22

bells

Question 23

What does Revere tell his friend to do to warn him the British are coming?

Answer 23

hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch as a signal light

Question 24

“Paul Revere’s Ride” is a:

Answer 24

literary ballad

Question 25

Sound imagery is prevalent in the poem, “Paul Revere’s Ride,” such as its meter, anapestic tetrameter, which is meant to sound like what?

Answer 25

the galloping of a horse

Question 26

Which town did Paul Revere visit?

Answer 26

Medford town

Question 27

“Listen, my children, and you shall hear”

What might be the purpose of addressing children in the opening line?

Answer 27

it suggests the importance of the poem and passing it down