Lit Terms
What type of narrator is used in Whitman’s ‘Song of Myself’?
first person
This stanza is the opening stanza from which Whitman writing?
“I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
song of myself
"Tell all the truth but tell it slant--" "I like a look of Agony" belong to what author ?
Emily Dickenson
This countercultural literary movement of the 1950s featured writers like Allen Ginsberg who rejected materialism and embraced spiritual exploration.
beat lit
What was Yosuf Komunyakaa Sandy hook response poem titled?
rock me mercy
In Twain’s ‘The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg,’ the narrator states that Hadleyburg’s “grand reputation will go to ruin like a house of cards.” What literary device is this an example of?
simile
Whitman's most moving Civil War poems inspired by his real life service as a nurse and bedside companion in Washington, D.C. area hospitals for wounded and dying soldiers?
the wound dresser
In “A Supermarket in California,” Allen Ginsberg imagines walking with ______ among rows of fruit, mourning lost connection in modern America.
walt whitman
This guy wrote a wild poem called “Howl” in the ‘50s that got him taken to court but he ended up helping change free speech rules for writers.
Allen Ginsberg
The blood Dazzler was the nickname for which storm?
Katrina
Fill in the blank: This excerpt from Ginsberg’s ‘America’ is an example of an ___ line: “I say nothing about my prisons nor the millions of/ underprivileged who live in my flowerpots/ under the light of five hundred suns.”
enjambmant
What poem celebrated the human spirit and the human body?
leaves of grass
whats one author we spoke about that would be considered most known for his poems using beat literature?
Allen ginsburg
In his poem “I Am Waiting,” this San Francisco poet hoped for a better America and maybe even a new kind of rebirth for the soul of the country.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
In Smith’s poems about Katrina, she represents the storm as a person, giving it qualities of its own- what is this called?
personification
In ‘The Wound Dresser’ Whitman says that “...life struggles hard.” What literary device is this an example of?
metonym
During Whitman’s writing career he also volunteered during the war as a _______?
Nurse
Imagine this scene: A battlefield at night. A lone soldier watches over a fallen comrade. Which Whitman poem best fits this image?
“Vigil Strange I Kpt on the Field One Night”
In “I Am Waiting,” this poet lists dreams like “the rebirth of wonder” and a return to real values—kind of like a poetic wishlist for fixing America.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
What literary device is used when Komunyakaa writes “rooms run into each other like tunnels leading to the underworld”?
metaphor
What did Whitman’s use of anaphora in ‘Beat! Beat! Drums!’ convey?
open ended question
Which president did Whitman salute for his heroism during the Civil war?
Lincoln
1) We studied 9/11 poems during class, what was the name of the authors who's poems we studied and what was it called?
2) What was the name of the person who helped compile these poems?
1) Martin Espada's poem "Alabanza" and "Tower One" and "Tower Two,"
2) Bob holman
What role did beat Lit play in American lit
The Beats played a key role in the development of American literature because they showed that literature could contain personal experiences that others might deem obscene.
In the poem Rock Me Mercy, what spiritual figure is called to action?
guardian angel