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Washington Irving and Edgar Allan Poe American Romanticism- Washington Irving and Edgar Allan Poe 1 2 O R 3 U W A L K E R T L C A 4 5 G E R M A N P A R E N T A L 6 C S I 7 8 9 10 O T R G M O R A L 11 12 13 14 F S N G S E U F N N 15 I U S E A N I M A L S N 16 17 18 N P U E G O W L L I H A A E M U O R I I T R I B 19 N R P P R O T A G O N I S T S Y P E 20 C N T O H E K Y M T S L I A I P A L O A 21 22 H A W T H O R N E M H E A R T T L L U N H E 23 24 25 R K N I C K E R B O C K E R A E A R 26 27 L A M O N T I L L A D O T C H 28 A R 29 B E A U T I F U L O V 30 D R E A R Y N Across 29. A reoccuring theme in Edgar Allan Poe's work is 16. Washington Irving was highly influenced by the 3. The character Tom ________ from one of Washington young, _______ women who refuse to stay dead culture and writing of ________. Irving's stories ventures out into the woods where he meets 30. All of Edgar Allan Poe's stories depict a _______ 17. Washington Irving described New York as the devil mood. __________ based off a town in England that was legendary 4. Washington Irving's story Rip Van Winkle was a Down for the stupidity of its inhabitants rewritten ________ folklore. 1. Edgar Allan Poe's characters are often __________. 18. Washington Irving's story Rip Van ________ describes 5. Edgar Allan Poe lost his mother at a young age and his 2. In his work, Washington Irving often uses the theme of a man who wonders into the woods and emerges twenty adopted father showed apathy towards him, therefore many awkward________ due to the fact that he never married. years later, not knowing that everything has changed of his character have _______ problems 6. The disease that took the life of many of the women 20. A major influence of Edgar Allan Poe was seeing his 9. Many of Washington Irving's stories teach a _______ Edgar Allan Poe loved and influenced much of his work was _______, an actress, perform as Juliet and kill herself only to lesson ______. come back to life 15. Edgar Alllan Poe uses _______ in his work 7. Varying versions of _______ is a major theme in The 24. In his work, Edgar Allan Poe uses the color _____ to symbolically. Tell-Tale Heart, emphasized by the chilling maze of the symbolize death. 19. Washington Irving's stories depict flawed _________. narrator’s confused mind. 25. The story The Black _______, written by Edgar Allan 21. Washington Irving Influenced Nathaniel 8. A major theme in both The Black Cat and The Poe describes an unnamed narrator who descends into ____________, author of The Scarlet Letter. Tell-Tale Heart is _______. maddnes and kills his pets and wife 22. The story The Tell-Tale _______ by Edgar Allan Poe 10. The poem ________ Lee was written by Edgar Allan 27. In The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving describes a young man so vexed by an older man's eye that Poe after the death of his beloved wife, Virginia invented one of the most memorable characters in American he murders him, only to begin hearing his heartbeat. 11. Many of Washington Irving's characters have _______ literature, the superstitious schoolteacher _________ Crane. 23. Washington Irving's moniker Diedrich ____________ needs 28. Edgar Allan Poe changed to name of his story To is said to be an attempt at some sort of narrative 12. Washington Irving's stories often depict the protagonist Lenore to The _______ after meeting with famous author 26. The story, The Cask of __________, is told from the meeting with a ________ being. Charles Dickens. perspective of a man named Montresor who lures his victim, 13. Washington Irving was named after ________ Fortunato, into the catacombs of his home and buries him Washington, who he wrote about. alive. 14. The Raven, written by Edgar Allan Poe, is regarded as the first adult ________..
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