Walt Whitman
Emily Dickinson
Poetry Vocab
Literary Devices
Hodgepodge
100

The state Walt Whitman was born in

What is New York?

100

The state Emily Dickinson was born in

What is Massachusetts?

100

Words or phrases that create strong images, memories or feelings

What is evocative language? 

100

The author's attitude or feelings about the subject of his or her writing?

What is tone?

100

The literary period that Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson were born in

What is the Romantic Period?

200

The style of writing commonly used by Walt Whitman

What is free verse?

200

Emily Dickinson's nickname

What is the Recluse of Amherst?

200

A timely pause or strategic silence in poetry

What is a caesura?

200

A universal idea, lesson, or message explored in a work of literature

What is theme?

200

Walt Whitman’s poem “Oh Captain My Captain!” was written about him

Who is Abraham Lincoln?

300

The way Whitman had his famous book published

What is self-published?

300

Dickinson used rhyme and meter in her stanza similar to this form of song

What are hymns?

300

A group of poetic lines corresponding to paragraphs in prose

What is a stanza?

300

Repetition of identical consonant sounds, usually found at the beginning of words

What is a alliteration?

300

This literary giant loved Whitman's work so much, he wrote a letter praising it

Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?

400

Walt Whitman's most popular work

What is Leaves of Grass?

400

Some of Dickinson's early poems were sent to people on these two occasions

What are birthdays and Valentine's Day?


400

Rhyme scheme where accented syllables and all following syllables of two or more following words share identical sounds.  

What is exact rhyme?

400

Words that imitate or suggest the activity being described

What is Onomatopoeia?

400
This issue was the driving force behind the Civil War

What is slavery?

500
The American movement Walt Whitman was able to experience firsthand during his travels

What is the American Frontier?

500

The amount of time Emily Dickinson attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (college)

What is one year?

500

A close, but not exact, rhyming sound

What is slant rhyme?

500

When the speaker addresses a person who is not present, an animal, or inanimate object

What is apostrophe?

500

"If you were coming in the Fall" is a poem by whom?

Emily Dickinson