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Vocabulary I
Vocabulary II
Poet
Poems
Misc.
100
Writing divided into lines and stanzas.
What is verse
100
Repeating a word, phrase, or line of a poem.
What is repetition.
100
Walt Whitman was born and grew up in what state?
What is New York.
100
"If I could see you in a year, I'd wind the months in balls..." contains a metaphor comparing time to what?
What is yarn.
100
Who is the author of "The Great Figure?
Who is William Carlos Williams.
200
A poem with a pattern of rhythm and rhyme.
What is a metered poem.
200
A writer's attitude toward his subject, audience, or character.
What is tone.
200
Emily Dickinson lived in what town in Massachusetts?
What is Amherst.
200
Dickinson's poem "Because I could not stop for Death" is an extended metaphor comparing dying to what?
What is a ride in a horse-drawn carriage.
200
What was the Harlem Renaissance a celebration of?
What is the African American culture and people.
300
The reversal of the normal word order of a sentence.
What is inversion.
300
The shades of meaning and emotion attached to a word.
What is connotation.
300
How many Pulitzer Prizes was Robert Frost awarded?
What is four.
300
What metaphor appears in the folling lines from "If you were coming in the Fall"? "If certain, when this life was out- That yours and mind, should be I'd toss it yonder, like a Rind, And take Eternity-"
What is a comparison between life and the rind of a piece of fruit.
300
In the poem "Harlem" the speaker uses the pronoun "we" to refer to what?
What is African Americans in Harlem.
400
The repetition of vowel sounds.
What is assonance.
400
A poet's choice of words.
What is diction.
400
What did Dickinson instruct her family to do with her poems after her death?
What is to burn her poems.
400
The speaker of "somewhere I have never traveled..." compares himself to a what?
What is a flower.
400
According to Mary in "The Death of the Hired Man," home is the place where....
What is where people have to take you in.
500
The repetition of the same grammatical structure.
What is parallel structure.
500
A sentence with words omitted.
What is elliptical construction.
500
Whitman wrote a collection of poems based on the Civil War and his experiences working in a military hospital during the war which is titled....?
What is "Drum Taps."
500
What aspect of human biology in "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" does the speaker compare rivers to?
What is circulation.
500
Lists of things, people, or events, which frequently appear in Whitman's poems, are called...?
What is catalogs.