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An award-winning Chicano poet, activist, and scholar who was raised in San Jose, California by her mother and grandmother. Her poetry follows themes of identity, feminism, cultural heritage, and social justice, capturing the complex experiences of Latinx communities in the United States

Who is Lorna Dee Cervantes 

100

An author who was influenced by Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Winston Churchill, Yusef Komunyakaa, Sonia Sanchez, Tracy K. Smith, and Phillis Wheatley

Who is Amanda Gorman?

100

This poem is verse. 

What is “The Blue?”

100

Where “Once More to the Lake” was published

What was the Harper’s Magazine? 

100

A type of poem where the first 6 lines provided a response to the first 8 lines

What is Petrarchan sonnet?

200

- A lake poet

- born in Cumberland England

- Work represented common folk as his subjects and using vernacular language. His poems reflect a desire to deeply connect with nature and individual imagination. 

- Author of “The Prelude” and “Michael” 

Who was William Wordsworth

200

An author’s literary aesthetic includes the garden as a site of poetic vision

Who is Camille T. Dungy

200

A poem. That uses a dreary diction to suggest a challenging upbringing for the speaker. 

What is “Freeway 280?”

200
The university in the poem “The Blue.”

What is University of California, Berkeley? 

200

When the speaker is addressing something that isn’t there;  ie God.

What is apostrophe 

300

Part of a movement that Modernism 

Who is E.M Forster?

300

- Born in St. Louis Missouri and moved to the West Bank Palestine as a teenager 

Who is Naomi Shihab Ney 

300

 Poem that links nature to the sacred by exploring themes of identity, culture, worship, and prayer. Each stanza describes the style and circumstance surrounding the ways different people pray, paying attention to the ways that nature imagery, and material space become holy sites when inhabited by prayer.

What is “Different Ways to Pray”

300
A story where science is seen as both a cause and a solution to the environmental problems. 

What is “The Toxic Donut?”

300

Word choice 

What is diction 
400

A botanist by training who is mostly interested in mosses

Who is Robin Wall Kimmerer?

400

An author’s work who is described as intricately patterned compositions [that] explores various aspects of the human condition and inspire wonder int he unexpected associations that language can evoke.

Who is Heather McHugh> 

400

A poem that argues that we need to “save” all of it.  

What is “Webcam the World?”

400

One person annually is selected to be stoned to death by other members of their town to ensure a good harvest and to rid the town of bad omens for the year.

What is Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery?”

400
A type of rhyme within a line of a stanza 

What is internal rhyme? 

500

A prolific American author of SciFi, fantasy short stories, novels, comics, children’s stories, YA novels, biographies, and nonfiction articles and reviews

Who was Terry Bisson? 

500

wrote 20 volumes of poetry and describes herself as a wandering poet 

Who is Shihab Nye 

500

Dedicated to Al Gore and The climate Reality Project 

What is the dedication for “Our Purpose in Poetry: or, Earthrise?”

500
Uses internal monologue

What was the literary term notable in”Once More to the Lake?”

500

A turn

What is a Volta?

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