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A line of verse that ends in a full pause, usually indicated by a mark of punctuation.
What is an end-stopped line?
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A word or series of words that refers to any sensory experience (sight, smell, touch, taste, sound). A direct recreation of physical experience that adds immediacy to literary language.
What is imagery?
100
The New Yorker’s story of the week on October 15, 2012.
What is "Breatharians" by Callan Wink?
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so much depends/upon/a red wheel/barrow/glazed with rain/water/beside the white/chickens
What is "The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams?
100
Where is intolerance shown in Li-Young Lee’s “Persimmons”? And by whom?
What is in line one, by Mrs. Walker?
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The repetition of two or more vowel sounds in successive words, which creates a kind of rhyme. For example: white lilacs.
What is assonance?
200
The continuation of a sentence without pause beyond the end of a line of verse (or the end of a stanza).
What is enjambment?
200
It has been called the ideal Imagist poem.
What is "Oread" by H.D.?
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About the half-wit chore boy who was left at the ranch that time and told not to let anyone get any hay, and that old bastard from the Forks who had beaten the boy when he had worked for him stopping to get some feed…The boy got the rifle from the kitchen and shot him when he tried to come into the barn and when they came back to the ranch he’d been dead a week, frozen in the corral, and the dogs had eaten part of him.
What is "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" by Ernest Hemingway?
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What are three methods of striving for transcendence Jack Kerouac uses in Big Sur? Be as specific as possible by giving examples!
What is sex, drugs, and religion (with specific examples and page numbers!)?
300
The repetition of two or more consonant sounds in successive words in a line of verse or prose. For example: Cool cats.
What is alliteration?
300
From the Italian, meaning “stopping-place” or “room.” A recurring pattern of two or more lines of verse, poetry’s equivalent to paragraphs in prose.
What is a stanza?
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Starting in the 1940s, this group of poets sought to battle against social conformity. Many references to sex, drugs, and religion as means of transcendence in their works.
Who are the Beats?
300
Here we go round the prickly pear/Prickly pear prickly pear/Here we go round the prickly pear/At five o’clock in the morning
What is "Hollow Men" by T.S. Eliot?
300
What literary device does e.e. cummings use repeatedly in “next to god of course america i”? Give an example.
What is allusion (give both song title and line number)?
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A Latin phrase meaning “in the midst of things” that refers to the narrative device of beginning a story midway in the events it depicts (usually at an exciting or significant moment) before explaining the context or preceding actions.
What is in medias res?
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A brief quotation preceding a story or other literary work. Usually suggests the subject, theme, or atmosphere a work will explore.
What is an epigraph?
400
These two poems contain apostrophes to Walt Whitman.
What are "A Pact" by Ezra Pound and "A Supermarket in California" by Allen Ginsberg?
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All Greece reviles/the wan face when she smiles,
What is "Helen" by H.D.?
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Name two works of modernism that seem to be made up of fragments. Be able to defend your selections!
What is "Hollow Men"/Big Sur/"Persimmons"/"Next to god of course america i" etc...?
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Is going to get you. Just kidding. Really: the pattern of stresses and pauses in a poem. When this is fixed and recurring in a poem, it’s called meter.
What is rhythm?
500
A rhyme in which the final consonant sounds are the same but the vowel sounds are different. An almost rhyme.
What is slant rhyme?
500
Ezra Pound laid out the following three rules for what poetic movement? 1.Direct treatment of the ‘thing’ whether subjective or objective 2. To use absolutely no word that does not contribute to the presentation 3. As regarding rhythm: to compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in the sequence of the metronome.
What is Imagism?
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The Bartender tells me all the Indians are gone, do I know where they went? I tell them I don’t know, and I don’t know, so he gives me a beer just for being an Indian…
What is "Pawn Shop" by Sherman Alexie?
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How many animals are mentioned in “Breatharians?” Name them all.
What is 4 (or 5)? (cats, dogs, bats, cows, and maybe people)
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