Whitman poems
Dickinson poems
Whitman's style
Dickinson's style
Miscellaneous
100
The list of American workers in "I Hear America Singing" is an example of this
What is a catalog?
100
According to Dickinson, this person really understands success
Who is the person who never succeeds?
100
"limpsy" and "dribs" are examples of this
What is made up words?
100
A rhyme of two words with some slight similarity of sound
What is slant rhyme?
100
"The delicious singing of the mother" is an example of this figure of speech
What is synaesthesia?
200
"Kindling a fire and broiling the fresh-kill'd game" contains this sound device
What is parallel structure?
200
According to Dickinson, the truth is best told this way
What is slant or in circuit?
200
Whitman's poems frequently contained references to this art form
What is music?
200
A punctuation mark used to indicate a pause in thought
What is a dash?
200
A writer's choice of words
What is diction?
300
This Whitman poem can be described as a series of snapshots of American life
What is "Song of Myself # 10"
300
According to Dickinson, these people get to decide what makes sense
What is the majority?
300
"ambulanza" is an example of this
What is foreign words?
300
The soul in "The Soul selects her own Society" and death in "Because I could not stop for Death"
What are two examples of personification?
300
The title of "A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim" can be described with this word
What is ambiguous?
400
The theme of "A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim" is this
What is that a Civil War violates the teachings of Christ?
400
Dead people
Who are the speakers in "I heard a Fly buzz..." and "Because I could not stop for Death"
400
"I heard his motions crackling the twigs of the woodpile" contains this sound device and this type of imagery
What is onomatopoeia and sound imagery?
400
"If only Centuries delayed" is an example of this
What is understatement?
400
An unexpected or startling comparison
What is a conceit?
500
Leaves of Grass is this type of poem
What is epic?
500
Dickinson refers to the frost that "beheads" the "happy Flower" as this
What is the blonde Assassin?
500
This emotion is expressed by these lines: "All this I swallow, it tastes good, I like it well, it becomes mine, / I am the man, I suffer'd, I was there."
What is empathy?
500
The arrival of the fly in "I heard a Fly buzz..." is an example of this
What is irony?
500
The running on of sense from the end of one line of verse into the next without a punctuated pause
What is enjambment?
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