Hovey, Thayer, & Whittier Flashcards
supporters; champions of a cause or organization
patrons
arrogant; conceited
haughty
a song, usually short, that tells a story
ballad
commotion; din
tumult
a baseball team from a fictional town
Mudville Nine
a sailing ship with two or more masts, typically with the foremost smaller than the mainmast
schooner
a strong desire to travel
wander-thirst
to express grief, sorrow, or regret
lament
resistance; opposition
defiance
two lines of verse that form a unit - usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme
couplet
"I am fevered with the sunset,
I am fretful with the bay,
For the wander-thirst is on me
And my soul is in Cathay."
Describe the mood of speaker in the first stanza.restless
Which word in the first stanza of The Sea Gypsy best typifies the speaker’s feelings?
wander-thirst
Consider the meter of the poem, The Sea Gypsy - the lines regularly vary in length, every other line. What kind of rhythm was Hovey creating?
a rocking rhythm, like a boat at sea
“I must forth again to-morrow!
With the sunset I must be
Hull down on the trail of rapture
In the wonder of the sea.”
resolution
“And Blake, the much despised, tore the cover off the ball”
hyperbole
“Then from 5,000 throats and more there rose a lusty yell;”
synecdoche
“It rumbled through the valley, it rattled in the dell;”
onomatopoeia
What is the Central One Idea of “Casey at the Bat”?
Pride goes before a fall.
Interestingly, the poem might well be read as a critique of both Casey and whom?
the crowd
Why is there no sunshine, joy, music, laughter, or sunshine in Mudville?
Mighty Casey has struck out
“Still sits the schoolhouse by the road,
A ragged beggar sleeping;”
metaphor
“Long years ago a winter sun
Shone over it at setting;
Lit up its western window-panes,
And low eaves’ icy fretting.”
a shift; speaker begins flashback
In the poem, In School Days, what weighty revelation does the girl confess to the boy?
She loves him.
What grave fact about the girl is revealed in stanza 10 of In School Days?
She died fairly young.
What does the speaker in, In School Days learn?
an impacting lesson based on his experience with the girl.
