Poems
Theme in Let America Be America Again
What is Justice, freedom, equality
A comparison using like or as
What is a Simile
The poet of Let America Be America Again
Who is Langston Hughes
Walt Whitman wrote....between 1841-1848
Short Fiction
The unit of rhythm
What is Meter
Line that is Repeated in Langston Hughes Poem Let America Be America Again
America was never America to Me
the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
Alliteration
Walt Whitman wrote what poem
O Captain my Captain
Whitman Fired from Newspaper where he worked
Politics conflicted with publisher
What is how to analyze a poem
Angry, frustrated, resentful but by the end hopeful
What is tone of Let America Be America Again
an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.
What is Allusion
The poet of Elegy for J.F.K.
Who is W.H. Auden
Whitman's Influences (3)
Shakespeare, Bible, Italian Opera
TPCASTT
What is used to analyze a poem
3 poetic devices used in Let America Be America Again
The use of the five senses in a piece of literature
What is Imagery
The poet of Annabelle Lee
Who is Edgar Allen Poe
Unstressed syllables followed by stressed syllables in a line of five feet
What is Iambic Pentameter
TPCASTT Acronym
Title
Paraphrase
Connotation
Attitude
Shift
Title Revisited
Theme
Let America Be America Again was written in
What is 1936
the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic.
What is Theme
Edmund Spencer wrote the poem
My love is like ice and I to Fire
Whitman poetic characteristic?
free verse
Steps to Read a Poem
What is Show no Fear/Read the title/Then STOP/Read the poem/Annotate/use a dictionary/identify narrator/Notice Shifts/Figure out the structure/read the poem again
Theme of Let America Be America Again
What is the author feels left out of the American Dream
ABAB CDCD EFEF
What is a rhyme scheme
Robert Burns wrote
A Red Red Rose
Whitman Died
March 1892
one of the country's most influential poets (that we studied)
Walt Whitman