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Name that rhyme scheme!
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Langston Hughes and Walt Whitman
Robert Frost- On a Literal Level
Analyze This!
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Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe -Lewis Carol, Jabberwocky (from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
What is abab?
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He gives the harness bells a shake.
What is sound?
100
Walt Whitman's poem "I Hear America Singing" is about this type of American.
Who are the blue-collar workers?
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This is the literal level of "The Road Less Traveled."
What is a man made a choice between two paths in life, and is recommending to the reader to choose the path most people don't choose.
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This is the rhyme scheme of the following lines: "In the room the women come and go Talking of Michelangelo"
What is aa, also known as a couplet?
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The first Day's Night had come- And grateful that a thing So terrible- had been endured- I told my Soul to sing-
What is abcb?
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Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?
What is sight
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The poem "I, Too" by Langston Hughes is a response to Whitman's "I Hear America Singing." To whom is he referring to in his poem?
What is the African American community?
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This is the literal level of "Out, Out."
What is a boy has his arm chopped off in an accident with a saw and dies. People resume their lives as normal.
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This is the theme of the following passage: "Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach? I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think they will sing to me.
What is isolation?
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Whose woods these are I think I know.- His house is in the village though;- He will not see me stopping here- To watch his woods fill up with snow.-
What is aaba?
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We sing sin.
What is sound?
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Langston Hughes's poem, "I, Too?" is this type of metaphor.
What is an extended metaphor?
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This is the literal level of "Stopping By the Woods on a Snowy Evening."
What is a man is in the woods and stops near a farmhouse of a different man. He decides to keep riding through the woods because he still has a long way to go.
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This literary device is exemplified in this passage: "I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across the floors of silent seas."
What is alliteration and metaphor?
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The whiskey on your breath- Could make a small boy dizzy;- But I hung on like death:- Such waltzing was not easy.- -Theodore Roethke
What is abab?
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Where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs broken across it
What is touch?
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"Harlem: A Dream Deferred" is made up of a series of this literary device.
What is similes?
400
This is the literal level of "The Runaway."
What is a small horse gets is afraid of the cold, but he runs away and gets stuck outside in the cold.
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The following lines employs this type of literary device: "Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherised upon a table; Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets
What is repetition of "Let us go," also known as parallelism.
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The name of the author is the first to go- followed obediently by the title, the plot,- the hearbreaking conclusion, the entire novel- which suddenly becomes one you have never read,- never even heard of
What is there is none?
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Does it stink like rotten meat?
What is smell?
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Both "I, Too" and "I Hear America Singing" are written with this type of rhyme scheme.
What is no rhyme scheme for either, both are written in free verse.
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This is the literal level of "Birches."
What is a man reflects on his life, thinking about how when he was young he used to swing on birches and how the branches would always return to their original place.
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This element of figurative language is evident in the following lines: "The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes, The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes"
What is personification?