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What is "I Hear America Singing," by Walt Whitman?
This poetic device is exemplified by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke's comparison of America to a growing child.
What is personification?
This stanza uses metaphor to communicate this message about hope.
"Hope" is the thing with feathers –
That perches in the soul –
And sings the tune without the words –
And never stops – at all –
What is the resilient, constant nature of human hope?
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What is "Fire and Ice," by Robert Frost?
This poetic device is exemplified by Robert Frost's comparison of life's choices to two diverging paths in a wood.
What is metaphor?
This stanza uses metaphor to communicate this message about freedom.
Freedom
Is a strong seed
Planted
In a great need.
What is the slowness of change (e.g., to secure human rights)?
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What is "Because I could not stop for Death –," by Emily Dickinson?
This poetic device is exemplified by this reference to Sterling Brown:
(though Sterling Brown said
"Every 'I' is a dramatic 'I'")
What is allusion?
Name one poetic device associated with the word "Eden" in this stanza:
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
What is allusion?
What is personification?
What is metonymy? (referring to a specific part when discussing a whole subject, e.g., "the Pentagon")
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What is "Aftermath," by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?
This poetic device is exemplified by the second and fourth lines below:
I've known her – from an ample nation –
Choose One –
Then – close the Valves of her attention
Like Stone –
What is slant rhyme?
What is it called when the lines are broken up this way? What might be the significance of these breaks?
We real cool. We
Left school. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We
Jazz June. We
Die soon.
What is enjambment?
What is a disjointed, disconnected, jumpy feeling?
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What is "Ars Poetica #100: I Believe," by Elizabeth Alexander?
In "Because I could not stop for Death –," the denotation of the word "Eternity" is its literal meaning: "forever."
The _____ of "Eternity," however, is a negative, empty sense of nothingness, especially when compared with "Immortality."
What is connotation?
This stanza uses metaphor to communicate this message about our lives.
...All about us is
noise and bramble, thorn and din, each
one of our ancestors on our tongues.
What is the conflict we hear every day?
What is the effect of our family history on what we say?