Poetic Techniques
Romanticism
Modernism
Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening
Mending Wall
100

The repetition of initial consonant sounds in close proximity, a technique Frost frequently employed to enhance musicality.

What is alliteration?

100

 A key Romantic theme found in Frost's work is the celebration of ________, often depicted as a source of truth or solace.


What is nature or the pastoral?

100

Frost departs from the more ornate poetic style of Romantics and uses...

Everyday language.

100

The speaker in the poem pauses by the woods on this specific type of day.


What is "the darkest evening of the year" or the winter solstice?

100

The narrator of the poem annually meets his neighbor to perform this task.

What is mending the wall?

200

The use of natural sounding speech patterns and local dialects.

What is colloquial language?

200

What is the movement that believes in transcendence through connecting with nature?

What is transcendentalism?

200

Isolation and the loss of certainty in life relates to themes of...

What is nihilism, disillusionment, and alienation?

200

The "little horse" in the poem symbolises...

What is responsibility, duty, or the pull of the ordinary world?

200

The narrator questions the necessity of the wall, stating that "Before I built a wall I'd ask to know / What I was walling _____ or walling ____."

What is "in" and "out"?

300

The use of an object or idea to represent something else, often a broader concept, is a hallmark of Frost's allegorical approach.

What is symbolism?

300

The opposite of city or urban living. 

What is rural living or pastoralism?

300

Questioning the nature and purpose of the human experience, Frost explored...

What is existentialism?

300

The repeated line "And miles to go before I sleep" suggests...

What are obligations or the inevitability of death?

300

The neighbor famously repeats this line twice in the poem, emphasizing his traditional and unchanging view.

What is "Good fences make good neighbours"?

400

Poems without a fixed rhyme structure. 

What is blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter)?

400

In Stopping By Woods, the poet-speaker is in deep _________ (word that means contemplation).

What is introspection?

400

Especially after WW1, modernists challenged social progress. Specifically, they challenged... 

What is modernity, technology, and industrialisation?

400

The "lovely, dark and deep" woods represent both the beauty of nature and...

What is the allure of death?

400

The poem explores the tension between the desire for connection and... 

What are boundaries, privacy, or separation?

500

The continuation of a line without punctuation.

What is enjambment?

500

Romantics believe nature is not just beautiful, it is...

What is sublime?

500

Modernist poets rejected... 

Traditional forms of poetry and romanticism. 

500

This poem's specific rhyme scheme is:

AABA, BBCB, CCDC, DDDD

500

The "something" that "doesn't love a wall" is often interpreted as...

What is nature?