Literary Devices
What is the tone?
a. arrogant
b. humerus
c. optimism
What is optimistic
What is the meaning of intermission?
a. A long workout
b. A fast meeting
c. pause or break
What is a pause or break
What do you think has become of young and old men?
a. Alive and well somewhere
b. Working their hardest for their families
c. Dead and in the ground
What is alive and well somewhere
What is the meaning of fetching?
a. to retrieve
b. Gretchen from "Mean Girls"
c. Dog chaises a toy
What is to retrieve
What is the symbolic meaning of grass?
a. death
b. life
c. green
What is life?
What is the allusion this story is giving off?
a. I guess it must be the flag of my disposition
b. It is the handkerchief of the Lord
c. And ceased the moment life appeared
What is the handkerchief of the Lord
What is the definition of melodious?
a. pleasant tunes
b. creative
c. synopsis of melodies
What is pleasant tunes
What was the workers singing like?
a. Bland and slow
b. Strong melodious songs
c. High pitched and long
What is strong melodious songs
What is the meaning of disposition?
a. Moving apart
b. Out of place
c. One natures or attitude
What is one's nature or attitude?
What is the symbolic meaning of singing?
a. A good harmonizing group
b. Unity in their country
c. Every person has a different story
Who has a different story?
What is the imagery of this story?
a. Singing with open mouths
b. I hear America singing
c. He sits on his bench
What is singing with open mouths
What is the definition of robust?
a. loud and cheerful
b. strong and healthy
c. optimistic
What is strong and healthy
What does it say about death in the end?
a. Something you want to stay away from as long as possible
b. That your lucky
c. A terrible feeling
What is getting lucky
a. Big striped stone
b. Symbol standing for a word
c. Old time language made by Arabics
What is a symbol standing for a word
What is the symbolism of the sprouts?
a. That there isn't really any death
b. Ceasing the moment of life
c. Talking in different tongues
What isn't really death
Which is showing more foreshadowing in the story?
a. the beautiful uncut hair of graves
b. After all so many uttering tongues
c. sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones
What is sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones
What is the definition of blithe?
a. depressed
b. speedy
c. happy and cheerful
What is happy and cheerful
When does the Mason decide to singing in "I Hear America Singing?"
a. getting ready for work
b. Making breakfast for his wife
c. Chopping wood in the backyard
What is getting ready ready for work
What is the meaning of transpire?
a. Pass off or send off moisture
b. Big and puffy clouds high in the sky
c. Sweat disappearing
What is passing off or sending off moisture?
What is the symbolism of all the workers with their job?
a. All of them helping each other with their jobs
b. Different diversity and people in America
c. Number of workers it takes to do something
What is different diversity and people in America
What is the literary device of "the small sprout?"
a. Metaphor
b. symbolism
c. Allusion
What is symbolism?
Who is the ploughboy's?
a. Children who work's in a bakery to make dough
b. A boy who leads the animals that draw a plow
c. Grow crops on their farm
Who is a boy that leads the animals to draw a plow
What has become of women and children?
a. Giving up and want some rights
b. Sitting back and just do what the men tell them
c. Ceasing the moment life has appeared
What is ceasing the moment life has appeared
What is the meaning of Canuck?
a. A big wooden canoe
b. Head of the tribe
c. Inhabitant of Eastern Virginia
What is the nickname of inhabitant of Eastern Virginia?
What is the symbol of dark grass?
a. The bad and dark side of people
b. The different diversity in people
c. Being depressed and sad
What is the different diversity in people