Figures of Speech
Sound Devices
Poetic devices
Whitman
Dickinson
100
A comparison between two objects that is continued throughout a poem
What is an extended metaphor?
100
Beginning successive lines of a poem with the same word
What is anaphora?
100
The dictionary definition of a word
What is denotation?
100
The state in which Whitmas was born and grew up
What is New York?
100
Dickinson is sometimes referred to as the Recluse of this New England town
What is Amherst, Massachusetts?
200
A figure or speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase
What is an oxymoron?
200
The use of a word whose sound echoes its meaning
What is onomatopoeia?
200
The shades of meaning and emotion attached to a word
What is connotation
200
The American writer whose endorsement of Whitman's poetry helped to launch his career
Who is Emerson?
200
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
What is the name of Dickinson's mentor, the editor of the Atlantic Monthly?
300
A figure of speech in which a part represents the whole
What is a synecdoche?
300
The repetition of a vowel sound
What is assonance?
300
The reversal of the normal word order of a sentence
What is inversion?
300
One of Whitman's nicknames that is a reference to William Shakespeare
What is the American Bard?
300
The chronic illness that damaged Dickinson's eyesight and caused her death
What is Bright's Disease?
400
The juxtaposition of one sensory image with another image that appeals to a different sense
What is synaesthesia?
400
The repetition of a final consonant sound
What is consonance?
400
A sentence in a poem with a word omitted
What is an elliptical construction?
400
Whitman's collection of Civil War poetry
What is Drum Taps?
400
The instructions left by Dickinson in her will regarding her poetry
What is destroy it?
500
Referring to a person, place, or thing by something closely associated to it.
What is a metonymy?
500
The rhythm of the spoken language
What is cadence?
500
When a writer's description of the weather relates to the events in the plot or the emotions of the characters
What is the pathetic fallacy?
500
The speaker in Whitman's Leaves of Grass
Who is the American poet?
500
Dickinson's bedroom window overlooked this
What is the town cemetery?
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