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
Our House in Hadong
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contrasts a peaceful situation with a dangerous one
The Meadow Mouse
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peaceful setting and diction creates a relaxing mood
the space
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powerful metaphor causes us to become fearful
moon tiger
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the moon is told to leave the city and share its light with flowers
the song of the moon
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poem has a rhythm of anapestic tetrameter
the death of sennacherib
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presents life as a journey
eldorado
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has unusual rhymes
next
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has a strong contrast - freedom from the sea but death on shore
Starfish
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an Italian sonnet
The Sound of the Sea
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is written in lines like the swimmers would swim
400 meter Freestyle
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gives us a sense of slow going by spacing
the time we climbed snake mountain
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poem uses much parallelism
psalm 96
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his poems are some of America's most humorous
Ogden Nash
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his poems celebrated everyday life and average people | won 2 Pulitzer Prizes
Carl Sandburg
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his poems have wit and wisdom and have won 4 Pulitzer Prizes
Robert Frost
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she wrote thousands of poems but they were published posthumously
emily dickinson
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most famous American poet in the 1800s
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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his poetry was practical and realistic and caused a new kind of American poetry
Langston Hughes
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speaker
who or what is saying the poem - often the poet
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diction
choice of words
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denotative
literal meaning
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connotative
additional symbolic meanings
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poet laureate
official chosen poet of a place for a year
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imagined pictures or sensations with real vivid wording
imagery
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subjective description
including your own thoughts and feelings
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objective description
factual details
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simile
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
points out a resemblance between two things without like or as
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parallelism
repeated words, expressions, and thoughts
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personification
gives human qualities to something nonhuman
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symbols
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
ta DA ta DA ta DA ta DA .....
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anapest
ta ta DA ta ta DA ta ta DA ta ta DA
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pentameter
5 syllables per line
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tetrameter
4 syllables per line
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onomatopoeia
the sound of a word imitates a natural sound
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alliteration
the repetition of consonant sounds - usually beginnings
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assonance
repetition of vowel sounds
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Italian sonnet
14 lines 8 lines, 6 lines abbaabbacdecde
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octave
eight lines
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sestet
six lines
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English sonnet
3 quatrains and a couplet | ababcdcdefefgg
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quatrains
4 line stanzas
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couplet
a pair of rhyming lines
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stanza
group of lines
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free verse
no fixed rhythm, rhyme scheme, or line length