Key Vocab
Someone who comes from another country.
What is an alien?
A brief reference to something of historical, cultural, literary, or political importance.
What is allusion?
The thing personified in "I Hear America Singing".
What is America/work?
This form of poem does not use a pattern of rhyme and rhythm.
Hint: Human Family was NOT written in this form.
What is free verse?
This author is of Mexican descent.
Who is Pat Mora?
To translate something from one language to another.
What is to interpret?
A comparison between two different things by stating that one thing is the other thing
What is a metaphor?
In “I, Too,” eating in the kitchen is a metaphor for this?
What is being treated differently because of race?
The speaker’s message in Lines 17-20?
What is that no two people are exactly alike.
This author made and allusion to Walt Whitman in a poem.
Who was Langston Hughes?
A mix of different things.
What is a variety?
Describing animals, objects, or ideas as having human abilities or emotions.
What is personification?
In “Where Is My Country?” and “Legal Alien,” both poets tell about how they are judged based on this.
What is their speech and appearance?
It's what holds the human family together.
What is our similarities?
This author was of Chinese descent.
Who was Nelly Wong?
Feeling guilty and embarrassed.
What is ashamed?
A form of poetry that does not have a regular meter or a strict rhyme scheme.
Hint: "I Hear America Singing" was written using this form.
What is free verse?
An example of personification from lines 18-21 in “Where Is My Country?”
What is whispering lanterns?
The thing that is repeated in lines 13-15.
What are sounds?
This author wrote about the collective spirit in America.
Who was Walt Whitman?
Having a pleasant sound, like music.
What is melodious?
The specific pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines in a poem or stanza.
What is rhyme scheme?
The feeling expressed in all of these poems: “I, Too,” “Where Is My Country?” and “Legal Alien”?
What is the pain of being made to feel different?
The effect of repeating lines in Lines 35-40?
What is that it emphasizes the poem’s main idea?
This author wrote about how we are more alike than we are different.
Who was Maya Angelou?