Quotes
Characters
Literary Terms
Potpourri
200

"I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris, and he; 

I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three;"

"How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix"

200

Deacon

"The Deacon's Masterpiece"

200

What literary term is illustrated in this poetic line?

"His hair was like moldy hay"

Simile

200

What does Fame wear? 

Cloth of gold

400

"Tlot-tlot, in the frosty silence! Tlot-tlot in the echoing night! Nearer he came and nearer! Her face was like a light!"

"The Highwayman"

400

Mother

"The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver"

400

What literary term is illustrated in this poetic line? 

"The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees"

Metaphor

400

What will you build in Innisfree?

A small cabin

600

"I'll chafe your little bones while you take a nap."

"The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver"

600

Innkeeper

"The Highwayman"

600

What literary term is illustrated in this poetic line? 

"As the black cascade of perfume came tumbling over his breast;" 

Imagery

600
Who is grieving over Goldengrove unleaving?

Margaret

800

"(This is a moral that runs at large; Take it. -- You're welcome. -- No extra charge.)"

"The Deacon's Masterpiece"

800
Warren

"Death of the Hired Man"

800

What literary term is illustrated in this poetic line? 

"Tlot-tlot, tlot-tlot, in the distance? Were they deaf that they did not hear?"

Onomatopoeia

800

Why does Gitchee Gumee never give up her dead? 

The water is too cold for bodies to decompose and float. 

1000

"He could find water with a hazel prong-- which showed how much good school had ever done him."

"The Death of the Hired Man"

1000

Roland

"How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix"

1000

What literary term is illustrated in this poetic line? 

"There was death at every window; And hell at one dark window." 

Personification

1000

What do "worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie" refer to?

Death (the life cycle)

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