About the Author
True or False
Coffin lived from 1892-1978
What is false
He lived from 1892-1955
What is the rhyme scheme of the excerpt?
"America was brown men
with eyes full of the sun,
But America was schoolmasters,
Tall one by lonely one"
What is ABCB
Who authored "America Was Schoolmasters"?
Who is Robert P. Tristram Coffin
Explain the comparison of children to panthers.
"They took small wiry children,
Wild as panther-cats,
And turned them into reasoning
Sunny democrats"
What is wild, untamed, and the need of discipline through education.
What award did Coffin earn in the year of 1936?
What is the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
What did early schoolmasters do besides teach?
What is instilled morals
What inspired the author to write poems, novels, and essays?
What is the sea and fields around his home.
What literary device is used in this excerpt?
"They took small wiry children,
Wild as panther-cats"
What is a simile
Where did the author of "America Was Schoolmasters" live?
What is Maine
What is the definition of syntax?
What is the orderly arrangement of words within a sentence.