Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson did not release most of her own poetry. Who did?
who is her sister/family
Walt Whitman invented this form of poetry
What is Free Verse
This literary device compares two unalike things using like or as.
what is a Smilie
"I'm so hungry I could eat a horse"
what is Hyperbole
This is a word or row of words found in poetry that may or may not form a complete sentence.
what is a line
Emily Dickinson mainly uses this literary device in "Because I Could Not Stop For Death"
What is Personification
Where was Walt Whitman born
What is New York
This literary device attributes human like characteristics to an animal, object, or idea.
What is Personification
"You're blind as a bat"
What is a Simile
is a group of lines forming a unit. The ______ in a poem are separated by a space.
Where was Emily Dickinson Born?
what is Amherst, Massachusetts
What jobs did Walt Whitman work while he published his poetry?
What is a journalist/editor
This literary device is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
What is Alliteration
Oh, the bells, bells, bells!
What a tale their terror tells
Of Despair!
How they clang, and clash, and roar!
What a horror they outpour
what is onomatopoeia
or voice, talks to the reader. The ______ is not necessarily the poet. It can also be a fictional person, an animal or even a thing
What is a speaker
Emily Dickinson was famous for including this punctuation mark in her poetry.
What is a dash/hyphen
Walt Whitman wrote "O Captain, My Captain" about
What is Abraham Lincoln's Assassination
This literary device uses great exaggeration is used for emphasis or humorous effect.
What is Hyperbole
"The golden sun dipped below the horizon, painting the sky with streaks of pink and orange, while the scent of pine and damp earth drifted through the air, and the rough bark of the old oak scraped against his palm”
What is Imagery
is a word or expression that is notmeant to be read literally.
What is a figure of speech
Emily Dickinson only released this number of poems during her lifetime.
what is 10
Walt Whitman took this many years to revise "Leaves of Grass"
What is 40 years
This literary device uses descriptive language that applies to the senses – sight, sound, touch, taste, or smell. Some images appeal to more than one sense.
what is imagery
"The cat sat on the black mat"
What is Assonance
is the repetition of the same stressed vowel sound and any succeeding sounds in two or more words.
What is Rhyme