Skills of the Week
What is a Lyric Poem?
This punctuation mark can express strong positive or negative emotions in a text.
What is an exclamation mark?
This term in the poem represented The Civil War.
What is "fearful trip"?
Writer's attitude towards a topic.
What is tone?
In the poem, this word is the synonym for horn or trumpet.
What is a bugle?
O Captain! My Captain is this type of poem.
This term in the poem represented the U.S.
What is "the ship"?
This is used to by the author to set the tone of the text.
What is word choice?
In the poem, this word is the synonym for vibrate or shake.
What is trills?
True or False: An elegy can be written about a person still living.
What is False? An elegy is written for people who have died.
This term in the poem represented Abraham Lincoln.
What is the "Captain"?
The feelings and ideas that a word suggests beyond its dictionary meaning.
What is connotation?
In the poem, this word is the synonym for joyful or delighted.
What is exulting?
The expression of grief is O Captain! My Captain's what?
What is its Theme?
Whitman was referring to this when writing the line, "But O heart! heart! heart!".
What is his heartache/heartbreak/mourning for the death of Abraham Lincoln?
a poem in which the speaker reflects on someone’s death, often paying tribute to someone who has recently died.
What is an elegy?
This is a comparison is developed at length and may continue, or extend, through several lines or stanzas or throughout the entire poem.
What is an extended metaphor?
The theme of Whitman's poem is established through his use of this.
What is word choice?
The extended metaphor below represents this:
The ship is anchor’d safe and sound, its voyage closed and done,
From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won;
What is the ending of The Civil War in the U.S. and the victory of the Union (North)?