Lit Terms
What is a simile?
A comparison using "like" or "as"
Who is the author of the following quote, and what literary work did it come from?
“One turns to me his appealing eyes—poor boy! I never knew you,
Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you.”
Walt Whitman, The Wound Dresser
How many lines are in a sonnet?
14
What is the title of Zitkala-Sa’s memoir?
School Days of an Indian Girl
What poem is this line from, “Beat! beat! Drums! Blow! bugles! Blow! Over the traffic of cities- over the rumble of wheels in streets”
"Beat! Beat! Drums!"
What is anaphora?
The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of a line
What was the true identity of the author of “The Man who Corrupted Hadleyburg”? (hint, he had a popular pen name, but what was his real name?)
Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens
Who wrote this line? “The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind —”
Emily Dickinson
What was one of the most traumatic experiences detailed in “School Days of An Indian Girl”?
The cutting of her hair
What poem is this line from, “Vigil of silence, love and death, vigil for you my son and my soldier, as onward silently stars aloft, eastward new ones upward stole”
"Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night"
What is this an example of: "O Captain! My Captain!"
Apostrophe
Who were the 2 most popular/main “Beat Poets” we discussed in class? What makes a beat poet?
Lawrence Ferlinghetti & Allen Ginsberg; Beat poets were critical of the US’s politics & they advocated for change using their artistic talents.
What literary device does Robert Frost use in this line? “She was our land more than a hundred years Before we were her people.”
Personification
A Paiute Indian had a vision during the solar eclipse. In this vision, deceased buffalo and Native-Americans returned to get back their land. What is this movement called?
The Ghost Dance Movement
What poem is this line from, “I celebrate myself, and sing myself, and what I assume you shall assume”
"Song of Myself"
What is Hemingway's iceberg theory/theory of omission?
The idea that there is a surface level message but there is a deeper meaning below the surface.
According to his poem, what was Paul Laurence Dunbar’s main reasoning as to why Black people at the time should “wear a mask”?
He believed black people should “wear a mask” so those who are racist can’t take pleasure in the suffering experienced; a hardened exterior is a form of self preservation.
According to Dunbar in “We Wear the Mask,” what does the mask symbolize?
Deception in society
What is a major element of the first Ghost Dance song?
Native-American hospitality
What poem is this line from, “But soon my fingers fail’d me, my face droop’d and I resign’d myself, To sit by the wounded and soothe them, or silently watch the dead;)”
"The Wound Dresser"
Edna St. Vincent Millay uses this 14 line poetic form that follows a certain set of rules and rhyme scheme, what is it?
Sonnet
Give the following information on the author who wrote/read President Biden’s inaugural speech: Their name, age, and the title of their work.
Amanda Gordon, 22 at the time, “The Hill We Climb”
What is the definition of "Alabanza"?
To praise
“School Days of an Indian Girl” is very similar to many modern coming-of-age stories. What is another name for this genre of storytelling?
Bildungsroman
What poem is this line from, “While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring; But O heart! heart! Heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.”
"O Captain! My Captain!