Lit Terms
a figure of speech that compares two unlike things using the words “like” or “as.” is what
SIMILE
Who wrote the Poem “Song of Myself”
WALT WITMAN
Who was famous for writing a 14 line poem?
Subramania Bharati
The author known as the “father of free verse”
Walt Whitman
a fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter is what kind of poem?
A SONNET
Who wrote the Poem “Tell All Truth but tell it slant-”:
Emily Dickinson
Who is famous for using an Anaphora
William Shakesphere
One of the most famous authors that has a house in Hartford,Connecticut
Mark Twain
a figure of speech in which the name of an object or concept is replaced with a word closely related to or suggested by the original is a what?
metonym
Who Wrote the poem “The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg" :
MARK TWAIN
What is a simile derived from
Latin, origin word “similis”
This author only had 10 poems published in her lifetime
Emily Dickinson
a literary device that uses the repetition of short phrases or single words at the beginning of clauses or sentences is what?
anaphora
Who Wrote the Poem “ Albanza”
Martin Espadas
Where did the concept of a metaphor derived from
Greek, “meta” meaning beyond, “phero”, meaning to carry meaning from one thing to another
This writer founded his own newspaper as a teenager
Walt Whitman
a poetic term for the continuation of a sentence or phrase from one line of poetry to the next is what?
ENJAMBMENT
Who Wrote The Poem “"The School Days of an Indian Girl”
Zitkala-Sa
The most influential American poet we have studied throughout the semester.
Walt Witman
This famous writer was the daughter of a US Senator
Emily Dickinson