Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" begins: "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, / Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—" Which form of literature is this?

Charles Dickens's Great Expectations opens: "My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip." Which form is this?

Susan Glaspell's play Trifles prints: "COUNTY ATTORNEY: (rubbing his hands) This feels good. Come up to the fire, ladies." Which feature of the printed text marks this as drama?

In Macbeth, Shakespeare writes: "Is this a dagger which I see before me, / The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee:—" These lines keep a steady beat but do not rhyme. What is this verse called?

A Shakespeare poem begins: "Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? / Thou art more lovely and more temperate:" The whole poem runs fourteen lines with a set rhyme scheme. Which form is it?

Coleridge's poem begins: "It is an ancient Mariner, / And he stoppeth one of three." It goes on to tell a long sea story in short four-line stanzas. Which form of poetry is that?

Jane Austen's novel begins: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." Whose society does Pride and Prejudice picture?

Mark Twain's narrator opens: "You don’t know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain’t no matter." What does this wording show?

Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre opens: "There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning;" How can you tell this is prose?

Emily Dickinson wrote: "Success is counted sweetest / By those who ne'er succeed. / To comprehend a nectar / Requires sorest need." A short poem voicing one thought or feeling is called what?

Susan Glaspell's Trifles is a short play that takes place entirely in one farmhouse kitchen. Which kind of play is it?

In Shakespeare's Macbeth, a Scottish lord murders his king, seizes the throne, and is destroyed by what he has done. Which kind of drama is that?

Shakespeare's Macbeth is set among the lords and castles of which country?

Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" can be read in one sitting, has few characters, and builds a single effect. Which form is it?

James Joyce's 1914 collection of short stories pictures the ordinary people of his own home city. Which city is it?

Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "Young Goodman Brown" takes place in a Puritan village near Salem. Which region of the United States is that?

Benjamin Franklin's "The Way to Wealth" sets out advice about work and money in plain prose, built from sayings in Poor Richard's Almanack. Which form is it usually called?

Great Expectations begins on the marshes by the river and later moves to the city where Pip is to become a gentleman. Which city is that?

Drama is written to be performed, so its printed text is mostly dialogue with stage directions.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner appeared in Lyrical Ballads, which Coleridge published with William Wordsworth. Which movement in English poetry does that book open?