Haunted Houses (Longfellow)

The author of haunted houses is (a)  

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What is the meaning of the word "phantoms"?

• ghosts

• fast car

• humans

• phenomenon

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What is this line and example of?

-Impalpable impressions on the air....

• simile

• repetition

• alliteration

• metaphor

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What is the meaning of the line below

"There are more guests at table than the hosts

Invited;"?

• There are unseen guests at the table.

• People came that were not invited.

• The hosts of the party did not count the number of guests.

• The guests are hidden.

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Why does Longfellow use words such as "inoffensive" and "harmless" to describe the spirits?

• To emphasize how quiet the ghosts are moving through the house.

• To remind reader that ghosts are invisible.

• To emphasize the idea that ghosts do not have to be malevolent or evil.

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Based on the lines below, does Longfellow believer that everyone can see spirits?

The stranger at my fireside cannot see

The forms I see, nor hear the sounds I hear;

He but perceives what is; while unto me

All that has been is visible and clear.

• Yes

• No

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Which lines below supports the idea that a home's previous tenants will always own it?

• There are more guests at table than the hosts

  Invited;

• Our little lives are kept in equipoise

  By opposite attractions and desires;

• All houses wherein men have lived and died

  Are haunted houses.

• Owners and occupants of earlier dates

  From graves forgotten stretch their dusty hands,

  And hold in mortmain still their old estates.

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What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?

• ABAB

• ABBA

• ABCD

• ABBC

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What does the bridge of light connect?

• It connects spirits with one another.

• It connects the world of the living with the supernatural

• It was a lighted bridge that connected one home to the next.

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What does Longfellow mean by the lines below?

The spirit-world around this world of sense

Floats like an atmosphere, and everywhere

Wafts through these earthly mists and vapoursdense

A vital breath of more ethereal air.

• The spirit world is all around us, we just can't see it.

• Spirits are like the atmosphere.

• If you walk through a spirit, it will feel like a mist.

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