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"I Hear America Singing"
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Miscellaneous
100

EXAMPLE: I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

What is Onomatopoeia:?

100

Name the literary device used frequently in this poem.

What is repetition?

100

Whitman’s use of ________, or lists, of people, objects, or situations evokes the infinite range of elements that make up human experience. “I am enamor’d,” he writes, Of the builders and steerers of ships and the wielders of axes and mauls, and the drivers of horses . .

What is catalogue?

100

In Section 52 of “Song of Myself,” what does the speaker “bequeath” to the dirt?

He bequeathes himself to the dirt.

100
Whitman's love of all things can best be represented by what technique?
What is cataloging?
200

If they are not the riddle and the untying of the riddle they are nothing

What is words in pairs?

200
Whitman uses this technique to show relationships in this poem.
What is cataloging?
200

The literary device used here: 

If they are not yours as much as mine . . . If they are not the riddle and the untying of the riddle . . . If they are not just as close as they are distant . . .

What is anaphora

200

Cite three types of songs the speaker hears in “I Hear America Singing.”

Any three: mechanics, the carpenter, the mason, the boatman, the deckhand, the shoemaker, the hatter, the woodcutter, the plowboy, the mother, the young wife, the girl

200

Whitman viewed his poetry as a message to this.

What is the individualism?

300

Whitman’s style is as individual and as revolutionary as his use of poetic structure. His ____, or word choice, features the following elements:

What diction?

300
Based on the people he catalogs, we can assume that Whitman finds ___________ to be fulfilling.
What is hard work?
300

Unlike formal verse, which has strict rules, _______ has irregular meter, no rhyme scheme, and varying line lengths. It simulates natural speech. It allows Whitman to shape every line and stanza to suit his meaning, rather than fitting his message to a form:

What are free verse?

300

In #52, Whitman uses what technique to unify his poem and link ideas?

Words in pairs

300

Whitman and Dickinson shared this similarity.

What is adandonment of literary conventions? Individualism

400
Whitman refers to what kind of people in his works?
What is ordinary working people?
400
The 'singing' in this poem symbolizes this...
What is celebrating?
400

that all people are inherently equal and connected by the shared experience of being alive

What are epic themes?

400

According to the speaker in “On the Beach at Night Alone,” what connects all things?

A vast similitude, or similarity

400
One repeated word serves to unify ideas in "I Hear America Singing." What is this word?
What is singing?