"I Celebrate Myself, I Sing Myself"- section 1
"A Child Said What is the Grass" - section 6
"I Understand the large Hearts of Heroes"- section 33
"The Spotted Hawk Swoops By"- Section 55
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According to the speaker in section 1, celebrating oneself is equivalent to celebrating? (grass, atoms, everyone, creeds and schools)
What is everyone
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In section 6, the speaker describes the grass as the
What is uncut hair of graves
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Who writes on a large board, "Be of good cheer, we will not desert you?"
What is the skipper
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What does the spotted hawk accuse the speaker of?
What is loitering and talking too much
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What poetic device does Whitman employ in the line, "I lean and loaf at my ease observing a spear of summer grass?"
What is alliteration
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Which sentence best describes the speaker's ideas about the dead in section 6? (a. they communicate through hieroglyphics, b. they have collapsed inward, c. they are alive and well somewhere, d. they are the produced babes of vegetation
What is c., the are alive and well somewhere
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Who is the hero talked about in this quote, "The mother of old, condemn’d for a witch, burnt with dry wood, her children gazing on?"
Who is a mother accused of witchcraft who is going to be burned as a punishment while her children watch.
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According to section 55, where might you find the speaker in the future? (a. over the roofs of the world, b on the shadow'd wilds, c. in the fiber of your blood, d. under your boot- soles)
What is d. under your boot-soles
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The last stanza of section 1 begins with the words, "Creeds and schools in abeyance." This indicates that the speaker (a.is setting aside poor learning to express what is natural, b.wants to explore the ideas he or she learned in school, c.was a poor student and remembers nothing, d.regrets that they no longer believe in God.)
What is a. setting aside prior learning to express what is natural.
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What figure of speech does Whitman use when he writes, "...How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is anymore than he. I guess it must be the flag of my disposition?"
What is metaphor
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Read lines 14-22. What senses does the imagery most appeal to?
What is touch and hearing
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What metaphor does Whitman use to describe his poem? (a. grass, b. a barbaric yawp, c. the runaway sun, d. the vapor and the dusk)
What is b. a barbaric yawp
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Looking at lines 25-32, what is one piece of text evidence that supports Whitman's theme that life is always renewing itself?
What is line 28, "The smallest sprout shows that there is really no death." line 31:"All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses."
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What rhetorical device does Whitman use in lines 39-41, Whitman writes, "Again the long roll of the drummers, / Again the attacking cannon, mortars,/ Again to my listening ears the cannon responsive." (a. symbols, b. parallelism, c. militarism, d. figures of speech"
What is b. parallelism
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How is the speaker and the hawk similar?
What is They are both "untranslatable" and untamed
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Why does the speaker in section 6 say that, "to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier?"
according to the speaker, no one really dies. (line28) Death leads life forward (line 29) People usually think that once someone dies they are gone from this world, but the speaker believes their life energy is just transformed into the grass, which is why he writes the grass is the, "the beautiful uncut hair of graves."
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What happens to the fireman?
What is his chest is crushed by a beam of wood that falls on his chest.
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What does the hawk represent?
What is the free spirit of the natural world
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