poetry--semester 2 exam Flashcards by akshay patel

name the poem

my mother’s countenace/ could not unfrown itself

my papa’s waltz

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how they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, in the icy air of nigh

the bells

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my right ear scraped a buckle

My papa’s waltz

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it’s had tacks in it,/ and splinters

mother to son

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with a love that the winged seraphs of heaven/ coveted her and me

annabelle lee

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how the cllang and clash and roar

the bells

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tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant aidenn,/ it shall clasp a sainted maiden

the raven

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so, boy, don’t you turn back/…./ don’t you fall now –

mother to son

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so that her highborn kinsmen came/ and bore her away from me

annabelle lee

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as he knells, knells, knells

the bells

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name the poem

Or does it explode

it?

harlem

a deferred dream

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name the poem and figurative language

we
sing sin. we
thin gin.

we real cool

assonance

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name the poem and figurative language

he clasps the crag with crooked hands

the eagle

cacophony

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i am sorry, but i quite forgot it was your resting place

ah are you digging on my grave

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name the poem

and remembering with twinkling and twinges

the bean eaters

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name the poem

i cheer a dead man’s sweetheart, never ask me whose

is my team plowing

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at midnight in some flaming town,
when spring trips north again this year

i have a rendezvous with death

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today, the road all runners come

to an athlete dying young

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ere youth has sped, and strength of mind, ere voices sweet grow dumb

i have a rendezvous with life

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name the poem and figurative language

the wrinkled sea beneath him crawls

winter

personification

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name the poem

smart lad, to slip betimes away
from fields where glory does not stay

to an athlete dying young

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what is the raven’s only stock and store

nevermore- only word that it knows

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4 gothic elements in the raven

gothic colors -- ebony and violet 
first line- once upon a midnight dreary
use of diction- chamber, tempest, ghostly, beast, decorum
dreary
ghostly ember

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masculine rhyme has how many syllables

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female rhyme has how many syllables

two works that poe writes about his lost love

the raven | annabell lee

4 types of bells in the bells

silver bells golden bells brazen bells iron bells

poetic device with 3 syllables first two are short and unstressed while the third is long and stressed. give an example of this

anapest | seventeen

what are the stairs a symbol of in mother to son

hurdles in the mother's life

what should you remember about langston hughes

harlem renaissance

who wrote civil disobedience

henry david thoreau

who wrote self reliance

ralph waldo emerson

who wrote walden

henry david thoreau

who wrote nature

ralph waldo emerson

why does thoreau say to keep your accounts on your thumbnail

live a simple life

what are two tenets of transcendtalists

optimistic | oversoul of God, nature, and man

two transcendentalists

emerson | thoreau

two tenets of the anti- transcendentalists

pessimistic | hostile towards nature

two anti transcendentalists

herman melville | nathaniel hawthorne

what is the name for a short, witty saying

aphorism

from which college did emerson and thoreau graduate from

harvard

name the poem the virtue most in request is conformity. society every where is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members

self- reliance

name the poem imitation is _____

self reliance suicide

name the poem our life is frittered away by detail

walden

name the poem if a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer

walden

name the poem that government is best which governs ______(2 choices)

civil disobedience least none at all

name the poem i wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life

walden

name the poem speak what you think now in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again. a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds

self- reliance

name the poem nature always wears the colors of the spirit

nature

name the poem sell your clothes and keep your thoughts

walden

name the poem i ask, not at once no government, but at once a _____ government

civil disobedience | better

name the poem trust thyself; every heart vibrates to that iron string

self-reliance

name the poem for a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to _____

walden | let-alone

did emerson and thoreau live in concord

true

did throreau spend time in jail

true

emerson shocked harvard graduates by speaking against Christianity

true

powerful metaphor in harlem

or does it explode like a bomb

in "to an athlete dying young" there is a disparity between _______ and ________

sing songy tetrameter | the harsh death

harlem renaissance poets -3

langston hughes gwendolyn brooks countee cullen

victorian poets -3

a.e. housman thomas hardy alfred lord tennyson

who wrote tess of the d'urbervilles

thomas hardy

what was important about "the eagle

did not have a them

what was important about "winter"

wasn't beautifull

four line stanza is called

quatrain

three line stanza is called

triplet

what is gwendlyon brooks's calling card

poor urban writer from chicago

what play takes its title from "harlem"

a raisin in the sun

meaning associated with a word, not the dictionary meaning

connotation

repetition of the initial consonants

alliteration

repetition of vowel soudns

assonance

another name for word choice

diction

giving human characteristics to an inanimate object

personification

four types of allusions

biblical literical mythological historical

a pause in or at the end of a line of poetry

caesauras

number of times frost won the pulitzer

presiden who alluded to a frost poem

ronald raegan

frost spoke at his inauguration

JFK

another word for off rhyme

slant rhyme

word that means exaggeration

hyperbole

soft, melodious sounds

euphorous

unrhymed lines of iambic pentameeter

blank verse

five kinds of imagery

``` auditory olfactory tactile gustatory visual ```

a four lined stanza

quatrain

dickinson's calling card

slant rhyme

song you can sing dickinson's poems to

amazing grace

dickinson asks a critic if her verse is

alive

novel that has stay gold in it

the outsiders