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Vocab. I
Vocab. II
Poet
Poems
Misc.
100
A poem with no pattern of rhythm or rhyme.
What is a metered poem
100
Repeating a word, phrase, or line of a poem.
What is repetition.
100
What was the title of Robert Frost's first published poem?
What is "Butterfly."
100
The image "We paused before a House that seemed / A Swelling of the Ground" describes a/an...?
What is a grave.
100
A poem that tells a story.
What is a narrative poem.
200
The use of language to evoke a sense experience
What is imagery.
200
The repetition of consonant sounds.
What is alliteration.
200
Whitman was the first poet to write extensively in what verse?
What is free verse.
200
The "blonde Assassin" that "beheads" the "happy Flower" in "Apparently with no surprise" is what?
What is frost.
200
Dickinson suffered from a kidney disorder that caused eye problems and her death at the age of fifty-six. What was it called?
What is Bright's disease.
300
A writer's attitude toward his subject, audience, or character.
What is tone.
300
The repetition of vowel sounds.
What is assonance.
300
Countee Cullen called his fellow African American poets to do what?
What is to avoid racial themes.
300
The speaker in "A Sight in the Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim" lifts the blankets off of whose faces?
Who is an elderly man, a very young man, and Christ.
300
The imagist poet who wrote " The Red Wheelbarrow," "The Great Figure," and "This is Just to Say" is...
Who is William Carlos Williams.
400
The reversal of the normal word order of a sentence.
What is inversion.
400
The repetition of the same grammatical structure.
What is parallel structure.
400
What health problem could Robert Frost's diagnosed "nervousness" potentially cause?
What is tuberculosis.
400
In "Mending Wall," if you were looking at the two neighbor's fields from above, what would you see?
What is A grove of pines and a grove of apple trees, with a wall between them.
400
The shades of meaning and emotion attached to a word is called what?
What is connotation.
500
A sentence with words omitted.
What is elliptical construction.
500
A poem that expresses thoughts and emotions.
What is a lyric poem.
500
Langston Hughes was first known as what?
What is "the Busboy Poet."
500
The main conflict between Warren and Mary in "The Death of the Hired Man" is whether....
What is to take in the hired man even though he can no longer work.
500
The Harlem Renaissance took place in the 19--'s?
What is the 1920's