Walt Whitman Session 1
Whitman Session 2
Whitman Session 3
Key Words
Mid-Unit Review-
This is for anyone who hasn't taken Monday's test yet :)
100
Title of Whitman's epic
What is "Leaves of Grass"?
100
New form of poetry used by Whitman that defied established patterns of meter, rhyme, and stanza
What is free verse?
100
Significant motif in Whitman's poetry
What is the grass?
100
A long narrative poem that celebrates the deeds of a heroic figure Ex: "Odyssey"
What is an epic?
100
A group of literature focusing on imagination, intuition, and the natural world for meaning.
What is Romanticism?
200
Figurative hero of "Leaves of Grass"
What is democracy?
200
Whitman used initial ________ in lines.
What is repetition? Ex. "You shall..." in poem 2
200
True or false: Whitman does not give a definitive answer to the question "What is the grass?"
True- he wonders over the possibilities of grass' meaning
200
American literary movement from approximately 1835-Civil War that stressed intuition, personal experience, and connection with nature to find spiritual truth- Form of Romanticism
What is Transcendentalism/ Bright Romanticism?
200
Mood of "The Raven"
What is eerie, dark, and full of grief and distress? (Any answer with that general idea will be accepted)
300
Form of literature with ideas reflected in Whitman's poems
What is Transcendentalism?
300
True or False: As free verse, Whitman's poetry did not have rhythm.
False- Although he does not use meter and conventional rhyme, he creates rhythm with the phrases. The flow of his lines are similar to waves and other natural rhythms.
300
He does this in poem 16 to illustrate diversity and embrace all Americans.
Why does Whitman create opposites when he says "I am..."?
300
A regular pattern of sound and beats within a poem
What is rhythm?
300
What Emerson believed you should rely on to determine your fate.
What is yourself?
400
Why Whitman's writing flows from line to line A. Because Whitman wanted to maintain traditions of great poets of Romanticism B. Because Whitman wanted to demonstrate that there is a connection between all things C. Because Whitman wanted to give his poem characteristics of an epic
B. Because Whitman wanted to demonstrate that there is a connection between all things
400
The language Whitman uses is much like that in _____ poetry.
What is lyric poetry? (Background info- lyric poetry expresses the thoughts and feelings of the speaker and has a song-like quality rather than a narrative or prose structure)
400
The issue that Whitman subtly addresses when he says, "I am...Maternal as well as paternal." Alternate ?- The issue that Whitman subtly addresses when he says, "I am... Southerner soon as a Northerner?
What are women's rights? Alternate ? answer- What is the North/South division over slave issue?
400
A rhetorical device in which similar words, phrases, or clauses are used to emphasize ideas
What is parallel structure?
400
Rational foil to Captain Ahab
Who is Starbuck?
500
This is how New Orleans impacted Whitman forever
It made Whitman criticize slavery and respect it's victims
500
He does this by asking rhetorical questions.
How does Whitman develop a relationship with the reader?
500
According to Whitman, grass represents that there is really no _____ and if there is it is not true and final. Double points- 1,000!!
What is death? He says, "The smallest sprout shows there is really no death, / And if ever there was it led forward life."
500
A theme, character type, image, metaphor, or other device that recurs throughout a single work of literature
What is a motif?
500
What Aylmer sees the birthmark as
What is imperfection?
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