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In "If you were coming in the Fall," the speaker is addressing this person.
Who is "her beloved"?
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One nickname for Emily Dickinson.
What is "the myth" or "The Lady in White"?
100
In "I Hear America Singing," the speaker refers to Americans who are--
What is "ordinary working people"?
100
Name of Whitman's most famous work.
What is "Leaves of Grass"?
100
A list of related people, places, or events
What is a catalog?
200
In "Tell all the Truth but tell it Slant," the speaker believes the truth should be revealed _____________.
What is "gradually"?
200
The number of poems written by Emily Dickinson
What is 1775?
200
The nautical comparisons in "O Captain, My Captain" to historical events.
The storm is the Civil War; the ship is the USA, and the captain is Lincoln
200
The person that Whitman wrote two elegies about because he admired him.
Who is Lincoln?
200
A person, place or object used to represent an abstract idea.
What is a symbol?
300
According to the speaker in "Success is counted sweetest," the people that value success the most are the ones who have _________________.
What is "failed at everything"?
300
One of the reasons Emily left school.
What is she was homesick, ill, or did not want to publicly profess her faith?
300
In "A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim," the sight that the speaker sees "in the daybreak gray and dim" is?
What is "dead soldiers on stretchers"?
300
In "Song of Myself," Whitman's purpose.
What is to give a snapshot of American life that others can empathize with.
300
A summing up or restatement of themes of the entire poem.
What is a coda?
400
In "I heard a Fly buzz-- when I died," the speaker prepared for death by--
What is "willing away her possessions"?
400
The relationship between Emily and Thomas W. Higginson.
What is friendship born out of a working relationship. She most likely had stronger feelings for him?
400
In the last stanza of "A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim," Whitman implies that the Christlike soldier's death is
What is "a sacrifice"?
400
From Whitman's description of the runaway slave in "Song of Myself" 10, the reader infers __________.
What is a hatred for slavery and a desire for equality of the races.
400
Poetry written without regular rhyme schemes and meter.
What is free verse?
500
The way Death is portrayed in "Because I could not stop for Death" is ironic because Death is seen as--
What is "comforting"?
500
Two characteristics of Emily Dickinson's poetry that make it original.
What is use of dashes, random capitalization, no titles.
500
You can infer that Whitman chose to write about these Americans in "I Hear America Singing" because ____________.
What is "he thought they were true American heroes"?
500
Name one way in which the examples portrayed in "Song of Myself" seem eerily comparative to real-life.
What is the skipper is similar to the captain in Titanic, the fireman is similar to the fireman on 9/11.
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The "nectar" in "Success is counted sweetest" symbolizes.
What is "an achievement"?