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Vocabulary
100
In the ___ is perpetual youth.
What is woods?
100
Wrote "Leaves of grass."
Who is Walt Whitman?
100
Hope is a bird.
What is "Hope is the Thing with Feathers?"
100
Poems are divided into ___.
What is lines?
100
Repeating a word, sound, phrase, or sentence for emphasis and/or rhythm.
What is repetition?
200
Imitation is ___.
What is suicide?
200
Wrote "Hope is the Thing with Feathers."
Who is Emily Dickinson?
200
Talks about the ordinary working person.
What is "I Hear America Sing?"
200
Lines are arranged into ___.
What is stanzas?
200
Relates the ideas or story of the poem.
What is voice?
300
Nature always wears the ___ of the spirit.
What is colors?
300
Introduced free verse.
Who is Walt Whitman?
300
"Nature is a setting that fits equally well a comic or a mourning piece."
What is "Nature?"
300
The way a poem is laid out on a page is ___.
What is form?
300
Appeals to reader's sense of sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch.
What is imagery?
400
In the woods, we return to reason and faith.
What is Nature?
400
"I am glad to the brink of fear."
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
400
The action of the poem is winning a battle.
What is "Success is Counted Sweetest?"
400
Each beginning word is capitalized.
What is traditional form?
400
Short syllable followed by long.
What is iambic?
500
Trust thyself: Every heart vibrates to that iron string.
What is Self-Reliance?
500
"The sun is not but a morning star."
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
500
The main character experienced a peaceful death.
What is "Because I Could Not Stop for Death?"
500
Repeated rhythmic patterns create ___.
What is meter?
500
Three beats-unstressed/unstressed/stressed.
What is anapestic?