Figures of speech and rhymes
Identify the rhyming scheme in "Trees" by Alfred Joyce Kilmer
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
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The coyote in Mourning Dove's story is a moral example
False
He is a trickster
True or False - Abigail was trying to perform witchcraft to keep John Proctor to herself
True
True or False - Only texts written by the "Founding Fathers" can be considered "Writings of the Revolution"
False
True or False - All writers of Romanticism understand everything as a beautiful demonstration of the world's perfection
False - gothic writers use the images of evil and believe people are intrinsically bad
Nevermore, Yore and Lenore show how ___________ creates rhymes and helps with the musicality of a poem
Assonance
Who is the first character in "The World on the Turtle's Back" to talk to animals?
The mother
True or False - Epistolary writing (writing letters) was not a feature in Early Writings.
False - and you may compare it to "Caminha's letter"
True or False - Phillis Wheatley had already learnt how to read and write in English before she was brought to the USA.
False - she was bought as a personal servant and, as such, enjoyed the privilege of learning under her enslaver's wife tutoring
How is Nature represented in American Romanticism?
It is something mysterious and more powerful than us
The tongue twister "Peter piper picked a peck of peppers" is an example of
alliteration
FYI - consonance is when a vowel sound is repeated at the end of words
He was tricked into not having anything
What is the criticism presented to the "Declaration of Independence"?
Many of the writers defending "freedom" actually had slaves
What is the "tone" of Benjamin Franklin's picture with the lightning?
He is portrayed as a brave man of science and explorer
According to Bryant's Thanatopsis, when aren't we alone and vulnerable to Nature?
When we go...
Words that create the sound of an object are:
Onomatopoeias
Comment on the definition of good and evil and creation myths
Your answer has to have the word "balance" or a similar idea
Who does Benjamin Franklin cite as role models?
Socrates and Jesus
Which previously written book is often alluded to by Revolution Writers?
The Bible
How are onomatopoeias created in the Raven?
Through the use of alliteration
What is a "Iambic Pentameter"?
iambic pentameter, in poetry, a line of verse composed of ten syllables arranged in five metrical feet (iambs), each of which consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
"To him who in the love of Nature holds
Communion with her visible forms, she speaks"
(Thanatopsis - William Cullen Bryant)
Give an example from Brazilian culture who is a trickster - how can you relate that to the coyote?
Caipora, Saci - I'll analyse the relation
Puritan writers such as Jonathan Edwards and Anne Bradford used poetry as a means to explore their relationship with God and make sense of the world. What else did they write about?
They also wrote about personal matters and how they viewed the new World
Which rhetorical devices can be used in speeches? (say at least 3)
Thesis, antitheses, parallelisms, generalizations, rhetorical questions
What are some characteristics of Gothic writing? Give examples
mystery, accounts of villainy, and the supernatural
-I'll think about the examples