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Chapter 4 Flashcards

1
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What wrote “The Road not Taken”?

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Robert Frost

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What are dictionary definitions of words?

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denotations

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Who is considered to be the greatest American poet of the twentieth century?

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Robert Frost

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What is the theme of “The Road not Taken”?

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choices

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What are emotional or subjective associations of words?

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connotations

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What is the use of words which appeal to the sense to paint word pictures in the reader’s mind?

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imagery

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What is using words that sound like what they mean?

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onomatopeia

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What is the use of words to convey something beyond their conventional meaning?

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figurative language

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What is the correspondence of sounds and rhythm and the regular recurrence of sounds?

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rhyme

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What is the repetition of vowel sounds?

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assonance

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What is the repetition of a consonant sound?

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consonance

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What is the repetition of sounds at the beginning of words?

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alliteration

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What is the choice of words to obtain a soft, smooth, or pleasant effect?

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euphony

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What is the choice of words to obtain a rough, harsh, or unpleasant effect?

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cacophony

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What is the type of rhyme when only one syllable in the corresponding words rhyme?

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masculine rhyme

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What is the rhyme occurring within a line of poetry?

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internal rhyme

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What is the rhyme occurring when two words do not contain identical sounds by instead contain sounds which are similar to each other?

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approximate rhyme

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What is the type of rhyme when two or more syllables in the word rhyme?

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feminine rhyme

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What is the rhyme when words look as if they should rhyme but do not sound similar at all?

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eye rhyme

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What is the poetic pattern?

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foot

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What is the regular recurrence of sounds or motion?

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rhythm

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12
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What type of foot is accented, unaccented?

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trochee

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13
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What is a poem’s established rhythm?

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meter

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What type of foot is unaccented, accented?

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iamb

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What type of foot is accented, unaccented, unaccented?

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dactyl

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What type of foot is unaccented, unaccented, accented?

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anapest

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What type of foot is accented, accented?

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spondee

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17
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What type of foot is accented?

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monosyllabic foot

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18
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What type of word has one foot?

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monometer

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What type fo word has two feet?

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dimeter

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20
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What type of word has three feet?

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trimeter

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21
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What type of word has four feet?

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tetrameter

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What type of word has five feet?

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pentameter

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What type of word has six feet?

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hexameter

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24
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What type of word has seven feet?

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heptameter

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25
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What type of word has eight feet?

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octameter

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26
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What is unrhymed iambic pentameter?

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black verse

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27
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What is a traditional pattern which applies to the whole poem?

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fixed form

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28
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What is written line by line rather than being split into regular stanzas?

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continuous form

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29
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What is written in stanzas/

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stanzaic form

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30
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What are groups of lines having the same metrical pattern throughout?

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stanzas

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31
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Who wrote “A Rainy Day”?

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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32
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What are the themes of “A Rainy Day”?

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suffering, hope

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33
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What does the rainy weather represent in “A Rainy Day”?

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the trials and difficulties in the author’s life

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34
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Who wrote “Near Hastings”?

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Toru Dutt

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What are the themes of “Near Hastings”?

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alimentation vs. belonging, compassion, gratitude

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What was the gift given to the girls as they were sitting on a beach in “Near Hastings”?

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roses

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37
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Who gave the girls the roses in “Near Hastings”?

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a woman

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38
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What are the words used repeatedly in “The Rainy Day” to represent the themes?

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dark and dreary

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39
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What are the themes of “La Grandeza Mexicana”?

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God’s providence, the wonders of nature

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What is a style of poetry that is difficult to categorize but is often characterized as emotional, complex, and elaborate; it also tends to express intense emotions such as despair or nostalgia through ornate descriptions and the use of various literary devices?

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Baroque poetry

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41
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What is a poem that is written as a letter?

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epistolic poem

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42
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Who is the poet writing to in “La Grandeza Mexicana”?

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a lady

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43
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What is a comparison in which human qualities are given to an inanimate object or animal?

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personification

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44
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What work are these lines from: “Oh, thou, heroic heavenly sage profound,/ Miraculously to mankind was given;/ Thine is the land where myriad gifts abound.”?

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La Grandeza Mexicana

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45
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What are the themes of “Alone”?

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choices, personal responsibility

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46
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What do the roads in “Alone” symbolize?

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the paths of life that everyone must face

47
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What does the final step in “Alone” symbolize?

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either death or making your own choices

48
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What work are these lines from: “You can ride, you can travel/ with a friend of your own;/ the final step/ you must walk alone.”?

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Alone

49
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What work are these lines from: “But sweeter was the love that gave/ Those flowers to one unknown,”?

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Near Hastings

50
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Who wrote “The Song my Paddle Sings”?

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E. Pauline Johnson

51
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What are the themes of “The song my Paddle Sings”?

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the inconsistency of life, determination, nature

52
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What is addressing an inanimate object as if it were alive, or addressing an absent person as if he were present?

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apostraphe

53
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Who wrote “Sympathy”?

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Paul Laurence Dunbar

54
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What are the themes of “Sympathy”?

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freedom, oppression

55
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What work are these lines from: “I know why the caged bird sings!”?

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Sympathy

56
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What is the symbol of freedom in “Sympathy”?

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a bird

57
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Who wrote “A Prayer in Spring”?

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Robert Frost

58
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What are the themes of “A Prayer in Spring”?

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contentment, faith, the wonders of nature

59
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What work are these lines from: “For this is love and nothing else is love”?

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A Prayer in Spring

60
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What are the themes of “Time”?

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the passing of time, the brevity of life

61
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What work are these lines from: “So we beneath Time’s passing breath/ Bow each in turn, - why tears for birth or death?”?

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Time

62
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Who wrote “A Prayer in Spring”?

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Robert Frost

63
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Did the author of “Time” have a positive outlook on time?

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no

64
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Who wrote “As Imperceptibly as Grief”?

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Emily Dickinson

65
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What are the themes of “As Imperceptibly as Grief”?

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time, change

66
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What is the season that has gone away in “As Imperceptibly as Grief”?

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summer

67
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What is a metaphor which is developed at length and is often the controlling image running throughout a literary work?

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extended metaphor

68
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What is the extended metaphor in “As Imperceptibly as Grief”?

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Summer

69
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How does Emily Dickinson view change?

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as inevitable, but beautiful

70
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What work are these lines from: “Our Summer made her light escape/ Into the beautiful.”?

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As Imperceptibly as Grief

71
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Who wrote “The Unseen Power”?

A

Rumi

72
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What are the themes of “The Unseen Power”?

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providence, free will

73
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What work are these lines from: “Thy invisible wind sweeps us through the world.”?

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The Unseen Power

74
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What are people compared to in “The Unseen Power”?

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chess pieces

75
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What are the themes of “Remembered Music”?

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the power of music, spirituality

76
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According to lines 5 and 6 of “Remembered Music,” where did music originate from?

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the angels

77
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Who wrote “Remembered Music”?

A

Rumi

78
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What is an indirect reference to a person, event, or idea, often from history, mythology, classic literature, or the Bible?

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allusion

79
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What are the themes of “To a Waterfowl”?

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providential guidance

80
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Who wrote “To a Waterfowl”?

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William Cullen Bryant

81
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What is a short lyric poem which praises a thing, person, or concept?

A

ode

82
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What type of poem is “To a Waterfowl”?

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ode

83
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Who wrote “Sonnet 361”?

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Petrarch

84
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What are the themes of “Sonnet 361”?

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change, time, mortality vs. immortality

85
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What is a fourteen-line poem usually written in iambic pentameter?

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sonnet

86
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What type of sonnet was perfected by Petrarch, a poet laureate of Rome?

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Italian sonnet

87
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From what work are these lines from: “Who strives with Nature’s laws is over-bold/ And Time to his commandment bids us how.”?

A

Sonnet 361

88
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Who wrote “On the Grasshopper and Cricket”?

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John Keats

89
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What are the themes of “On the Grasshopper and Cricket”?

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beauty of nature

90
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What work are these lines from: “The poetry of earth is never dead:”?

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On the Grasshopper and Cricket

91
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According to “On the Grasshopper and Cricket,” when does the grasshopper sing? The cricket?

A

Summer, winter

92
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Who wrote “Sonnet 29”?

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William Shakespeare

93
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What are the themes of “Sonnet 29”?

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comparison, love

94
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What is also known as the Shakespearean sonnet because of William Shakespeare’s mastery of the form?

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English sonnet

95
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What work are these lines from “For thy sweet love remeber’d such wealth brings/ That then I scorn to change my state with kings.”?

A

Sonnet 29

96
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What are the themes of “Sonnet 116”?

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love

97
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Who is the author of “Sonnet 116”?

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William Shakespeare

98
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What work are these lines from, “Love is not love/ Which alters when it alteration finds”?

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Sonnet 116

99
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What is a form of Japanese poetry that consists of three lines and seventeen syllables?

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haiku

100
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What means word choice?

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diction

101
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What uses the characters of one language to represent the sounds of another language?

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transliteration

102
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What expresses the words and ideas of one language using the words of another language?

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translation

103
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Who is known as the master of the haiku?

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Matsu Bashō

104
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What illuminates the night in the haiku, “A Damp Night”?

A

fireflies

105
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What is the weather like in the haiku “Daffodils”?

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cold in early spring

106
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What is the weather like in the haiku, “A Still Day”?

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sunny

107
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What are the soldiers doing in “An Ancient Battlefield”?

A

resting because they are dead

108
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Who wrote “The Elixir”?

A

George Herbert

109
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What are the themes of “The Elixer”?

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labor, purpose, perspective

110
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What has been a recurring symbol in mythology since early civilizations, though it appears in many forms?

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the elixir of life

111
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What work are these lines from: “Teach me, my God and King, / In a ll things Thee to see, / And what I do in anything, / To do it as for Thee:”?

A

The Elixir

112
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Who is the author of “The Best Thing in the World”?

A

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

113
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What are the themes of “The Best Thing in the World”?

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gratitude

114
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What work are these lines from: “What’s the best thing in the world? / –Something out of it, I think.”?

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The Best Thing in the World

115
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Who wrote “Remembrances”?

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Aleksandr Pushkin

116
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What are the themes of “Remembrances”?

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regret, repentance, hopelessness

117
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What is the snake a metaphor for in “Remembrances”?

A

regret or guilt

118
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What work are these lines from, “A fangéd snake my heart devours.”?

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Remembrances

119
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Who is the author of “Night”?

A

Gabriela Mistral

120
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What are the themes of “Night”?

A

maternal love, peace

121
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What is a figure of speech in which exaggerated elements are used and not to be taken literally?

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hyperbole

122
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What work are these lines from, “Like a gentle, soothing hand/ Upon the earth a quiet lies.”?

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Night

123
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What is the author waiting for in “The Morning Glory”?

A

a person

124
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What is China’s earliest anthology of poetry?

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Shijing

125
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What are the themes of Shijing?

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unrest, time, anticipation

126
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What work are these lines from: “I climbed the hill just as the new moon showed, / I saw him coming on the southern road. / My heart laid down its load.”?

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Shijing

127
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What are the themes of “The Unforeseen”?

A

the unknown

128
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What is a form of poetry that has no fixed rhyme or metrical structure and which follows the natural patterns fo speech?

A

free verse

129
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What is the continuation of a sentence beyond the line break and onto the next line of a poem?

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enjambment

130
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What work are these lines from: “I want the shock/ of going silently along my dark street, /feeling that I am tapped upon the shoulder, /turning about, and seeing the face of adventure.”?

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The Unforeseen

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