Pen Names
American poet who became famous after death
Who is Emily Dickinson
"...the mist from the falls had cased every branch and rock and dead leaf in a glittering envelope of ice" is an example of this.
What is a metaphor?
The type of spider written about in Petrunkevitch's essay.
What is a tarantula?
"And then, he drank a Dew From a convenient Grass-"
What is "A Bird Came Down the Walk"?
The recurring or emerging idea of a work
What is theme?
Wrote the famous hymn "There is a Fountain Filled with Blood?
Who is William Cowper?
"Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new" is an example of what specifically?
What is an implied metaphor?
The type of wasp written about in Petrunkevitch's essay?
What is the Pepsis (digger wasp)?
"The songster heard this short oration, And warbling out his approbation,"
What is "The Nightingale and the Glowworm"?
Similarity in structure of two or more phrases, clauses, or sentences
What are repetition and parallelism?
Used African-American dialect in poems
Who is Langston Hughes?
"...but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost" is an example of this specific kind of comparison.
What is an implied metaphor?
These are the small hairs on a tarantula's legs that signal movement nearby.
What are trichobothria?
"Well, sir, they roosed around here on the housetop and the trees for an hour, and guffawed over that thing like human beings."
What is "What Stumped the Bluejays"?
The use of imaginative comparison and the organization of sound and syntax are referred to as this.
What is figurative language?
Politics and poetry were this poet's two greatest passions.
Who is Edmund Waller?
The poem "Mother to Son" is an example of this specific type of comparison.
What is an extended metaphor?
This is the tactic the wasp uses to incapacitate the tarantula.
What is to inject with poisoning by stinging the spider in the soft membrane where the spider's legs join its body?
"For 'twas teh self-same Power Divine Taught you to sing, and me to shine;"
What is "The Nightingale and the Glowworm"?
This uses a part of something to stand for the whole.
What is synecdoche?
Who is Mark Twain?
"They all came a-swooping down like a blue cloud," is an example of this type of comparison.
What is a simile?
This is the purpose of the wasp attacking the spider.
What is to paralyze it to host the wasp's eggs?
"They looked like frightened Beads, I thought, He stirred his Velvet Head.-"
What is "A Bird Came Down the Walk"?
These are the three types of metaphors.
What are implied, extended, and allegory?