Literary Devices/Structure
What is the name of when Robert Frost writes out certain accents in his literature.
Dialect.
The Neighbor
Baptiste
The narrator is doing this in the beginning of the poem.
Chopping wood.
Where did Robert Frost go to school at as a kid
He was home schooled
What was a concern when it came to junk that was useless.
mass production
Find an example of simile in the poem.
"Like the two strokes across a dollar sign."
"Mrs. Baptiste came in and rocked a chair
That had as many motions as the world"
"slender as a whipstock,"
"bending like a sword across the knee."
What can Mrs.Baptiste supposedly not do
speak english
This is why Baptiste doesn't like the narrator's axe-helve
It is made on machine.
When was The Axe Helve published?
1917
What is negatively talked about in Axe-Helve Towards America.
The education system
What literary device is found in the line:
"Do you know, what we talked about was knowledge?"
Rhetorical Question
What is Baptiste confident in himself with.
Making axe-helves
Where does Baptiste take the narrator to show him the better axe helves
to his own house
How do axes relate to Robert Frost
He was a farmer and did a lot of hard work.
What's a theme that involves Mrs.Baptiste and the neighbor during their awkward encounter.
Subtle racism, or stereotypes of Americans and canadians
What literary device is present when likening the axe-helve to the snake in the garden of eden?
Allusion
Who is the narrator suspicious about when he enters Baptiste's home.
Mrs. Baptiste
Why does Baptiste stop the narrator from chopping wood.
He stops him because he notices that his axe-helve is poorly made
Where did he first publish The Axe-Helve
The Atlantic Journal
What are the two ethnicitys that are being shown in the story
American and Canadian
Give one example of how the poem is written in
Blank verse, and Iambic pentameter.
What does the narrator slightly question about at the end of the poem
Whether hes friends with Baptiste or not.
What is Mrs. Baptiste sitting on when they enter the house.
A rocking chair
The two poets Frost studied with while in England
Ezra Pound and Edward Thomas
What is Mrs. and Mr. Baptiste's ethnicity
Canadian