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9 week test.2 Flashcards

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Dream Deferred by

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Langston Hughes

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The Cloud by

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Percy B. Shelley

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The Meadow Mouse by

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Theodore Roethke

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The Fawn by

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Edna St. Vincent Millay

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The Day is Done by

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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I’ll Tell You How the Sun Rose by

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Emily Dickinson

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Mending Wall by

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Robert Frost

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The Death of Sennacherib by

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George Gordon

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Jazz Fantasia by

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Carl Sandburg

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Eldorado by

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Edgar Allan Poe

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Next by

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Ogden Nash

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Sonnet 55 by

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William Shakespeare

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Poem describes a war veteran who still has ideals to pursue

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The Face in the Mirror

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a tribute to the legendary baseball player, Satchel Paige

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To Satch

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contrasts ancient ships and their valuables with a modern ship and its unexciting necessities

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Cargoes

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tells about a Native American who moves to the city and loses much of his dignity and status since he has no vision

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Without Title

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asks for someone to read passionate poets to him to relax him

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The Day is Done

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contrasts the sunrise and the sunset

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I’ll Tell You How the Sun Rose

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tells how we often erect offensive barriers against others

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Mending Wall

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could be interpreted as the Christian’s quest for heaven

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Eldorado

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contrasts the sound of a desolate place with the noise of civilization

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The Shell

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claims that we sometimes have divine inspirations

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The Sound of the Sea

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has an unusual speaker, a cloud explains everything

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The Cloud

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visually demonstrates the options of what could happen

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dream deferred

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appeals to all our senses except for touch

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Our House in Hadong

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contrasts a peaceful situation with a dangerous one

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The Meadow Mouse

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peaceful setting and diction creates a relaxing mood

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the space

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powerful metaphor causes us to become fearful

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moon tiger

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the moon is told to leave the city and share its light with flowers

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the song of the moon

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poem has a rhythm of anapestic tetrameter

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the death of sennacherib

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presents life as a journey

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eldorado

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has unusual rhymes

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next

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has a strong contrast - freedom from the sea but death on shore

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Starfish

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an Italian sonnet

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The Sound of the Sea

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is written in lines like the swimmers would swim

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400 meter Freestyle

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gives us a sense of slow going by spacing

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the time we climbed snake mountain

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poem uses much parallelism

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psalm 96

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his poems are some of America’s most humorous

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Ogden Nash

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his poems celebrated everyday life and average people

won 2 Pulitzer Prizes

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Carl Sandburg

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his poems have wit and wisdom and have won 4 Pulitzer Prizes

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Robert Frost

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she wrote thousands of poems but they were published posthumously

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emily dickinson

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most famous American poet in the 1800s

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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his poetry was practical and realistic and caused a new kind of American poetry

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Langston Hughes

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speaker

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who or what is saying the poem - often the poet

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diction

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choice of words

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denotative

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literal meaning

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connotative

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additional symbolic meanings

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poet laureate

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official chosen poet of a place for a year

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imagined pictures or sensations with real vivid wording

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imagery

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subjective description

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including your own thoughts and feelings

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objective description

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factual details

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simile

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a figure of speech that compares two unlike things using a word such as like as or then to suggest the similarity

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metaphor

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points out a resemblance between two things without like or as

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parallelism

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repeated words, expressions, and thoughts

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personification

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gives human qualities to something nonhuman

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symbols

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part of our everyday lives that enables a writer to compress a very complex idea or set of ideas into one image or word

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iamb

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ta DA ta DA ta DA ta DA …..

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anapest

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ta ta DA ta ta DA ta ta DA ta ta DA

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pentameter

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5 syllables per line

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tetrameter

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4 syllables per line

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onomatopoeia

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the sound of a word imitates a natural sound

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alliteration

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the repetition of consonant sounds - usually beginnings

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assonance

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repetition of vowel sounds

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Italian sonnet

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14 lines
8 lines, 6 lines
abbaabbacdecde

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octave

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eight lines

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sestet

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six lines

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English sonnet

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3 quatrains and a couplet

ababcdcdefefgg

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quatrains

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4 line stanzas

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couplet

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a pair of rhyming lines

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stanza

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group of lines

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free verse

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no fixed rhythm, rhyme scheme, or line length

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