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Sound Devices
Figures of Speech
Poetic Devices
Whitman
Dickinson
100
Repeating a word, clause, or phrase
What is repetition
100
A comparison continued throughout a poem
What is extended metaphor
100
A writer's choice of words
What is diction
100
New York
Where was Walt Whitman born?
100
Dickinson is sometimes referred to as the Recluse of this New England town
What is Amherst, Massachusetts
200
A word that sounds like what it means
What is onomatopoeia
200
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory words in a brief phrase
What is oxymoron
200
The dictionary definition of a word
What is denotation
200
One of Whitman's nicknames is this, a reference to Shakespeare
What is the American Bard
200
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
What is the name of the editor of the Atlantic Monthly who became Dickinson's mentor?
300
The repetition of a vowel sound
What is assonance
300
The juxtaposition of one sensory image with another image that appeals to an unrelated sense
What is synaesthesia
300
The shades of meaning and emotion attached to a word
What is connotation
300
Whitman's collection of poems that is considered a masterpiece in American literature
What is Leaves of Grass
300
Dickinson wrote approximately this many poems
What is 2,000
400
Beginning successive lines with the same word
What is anaphora
400
A figure of speech in which a part represents the whole
What is synecdoche
400
Only poets are concerned with this characteristic that all words possess
What is sound
400
Catalog
What is a list of people, things, or events in a poem?
400
The kidney disorder that affected Dickinson's eyesight and led to her death
What is Bright's Disease
500
The rhythm created by the spoken language
What is cadence
500
Referring to a person, place, or thing as something closely associated with it
What is metonymy
500
The omission of a word from a sentence in a poem
What is elliptical construction?
500
Language spoken by people who live in a particular locality
What is vernacular
500
A theory of historians to explain Dickinson's choice of clothing
What is the fact that she was never to become a bride