Hovey, Thayer, & Whittier

Question 1

supporters; champions of a cause or organization

Answer 1

patrons

Question 2

arrogant; conceited

Answer 2

haughty

Question 3

a song, usually short, that tells a story

Answer 3

ballad

Question 4

commotion; din

Answer 4

tumult

Question 5

a baseball team from a fictional town

Answer 5

Mudville Nine

Question 6

a sailing ship with two or more masts, typically with the foremost smaller than the mainmast

Answer 6

schooner

Question 7

a strong desire to travel

Answer 7

wander-thirst

Question 8

to express grief, sorrow, or regret

Answer 8

lament

Question 9

resistance; opposition

Answer 9

defiance

Question 10

two lines of verse that form a unit - usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme

Answer 10

couplet

Question 11

"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.

Answer 11

restless

Question 12

Which word in the first stanza of The Sea Gypsy best typifies the speaker’s feelings?

Answer 12

wander-thirst

Question 13

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?

Answer 13

a rocking rhythm, like a boat at sea

Question 14

“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.”

Answer 14

resolution

Question 15

“And Blake, the much despised, tore the cover off the ball”

Answer 15

hyperbole

Question 16

“Then from 5,000 throats and more there rose a lusty yell;”

Answer 16

synecdoche

Question 17

“It rumbled through the valley, it rattled in the dell;”

Answer 17

onomatopoeia

Question 18

What is the Central One Idea of “Casey at the Bat”?

Answer 18

Pride goes before a fall.

Question 19

Interestingly, the poem might well be read as a critique of both Casey and whom?

Answer 19

the crowd

Question 20

Why is there no sunshine, joy, music, laughter, or sunshine in Mudville?

Answer 20

Mighty Casey has struck out

Question 21

“Still sits the schoolhouse by the road,

A ragged beggar sleeping;”

Answer 21

metaphor

Question 22

“Long years ago a winter sun
Shone over it at setting;
Lit up its western window-panes,
And low eaves’ icy fretting.”

Answer 22

a shift; speaker begins flashback

Question 23

In the poem, In School Days, what weighty revelation does the girl confess to the boy?

Answer 23

She loves him.

Question 24

What grave fact about the girl is revealed in stanza 10 of In School Days?

Answer 24

She died fairly young.

Question 25

What does the speaker in, In School Days learn?

Answer 25

an impacting lesson based on his experience with the girl.