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poetry--semester 2 exam Flashcards

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1
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name the poem

my mother’s countenace/ could not unfrown itself

A

my papa’s waltz

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name the poem

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

A

the bells

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name the poem

my right ear scraped a buckle

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My papa’s waltz

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name the poem

it’s had tacks in it,/ and splinters

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mother to son

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5
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name the poem

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

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annabelle lee

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6
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name the poem

how the cllang and clash and roar

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the bells

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name the poem

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

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the raven

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name the poem

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

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mother to son

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9
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name the poem

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

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annabelle lee

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10
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name the poem

as he knells, knells, knells

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the bells

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11
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name the poem

Or does it explode

it?

A

harlem

a deferred dream

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12
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name the poem and figurative language

we
sing sin. we
thin gin.

A

we real cool

assonance

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name the poem and figurative language

he clasps the crag with crooked hands

A

the eagle

cacophony

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

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ah are you digging on my grave

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name the poem

and remembering with twinkling and twinges

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the bean eaters

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name the poem

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

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is my team plowing

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17
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name the poem

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

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i have a rendezvous with death

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18
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name the poem

today, the road all runners come

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to an athlete dying young

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name the poem

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

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i have a rendezvous with life

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name the poem and figurative language

the wrinkled sea beneath him crawls

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winter

personification

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21
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name the poem

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

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to an athlete dying young

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22
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what is the raven’s only stock and store

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nevermore- only word that it knows

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23
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4 gothic elements in the raven

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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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24
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masculine rhyme has how many syllables

A

1

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25
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female rhyme has how many syllables

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2

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26
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two works that poe writes about his lost love

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the raven

annabell lee

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27
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4 types of bells in the bells

A

silver bells
golden bells
brazen bells
iron bells

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28
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poetic device with 3 syllables
first two are short and unstressed while the third is long and stressed.
give an example of this

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anapest

seventeen

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29
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what are the stairs a symbol of in mother to son

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hurdles in the mother’s life

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30
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what should you remember about langston hughes

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harlem renaissance

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31
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who wrote civil disobedience

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henry david thoreau

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32
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who wrote self reliance

A

ralph waldo emerson

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33
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who wrote walden

A

henry david thoreau

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34
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who wrote nature

A

ralph waldo emerson

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35
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why does thoreau say to keep your accounts on your thumbnail

A

live a simple life

36
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what are two tenets of transcendtalists

A

optimistic

oversoul of God, nature, and man

37
Q

two transcendentalists

A

emerson

thoreau

38
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two tenets of the anti- transcendentalists

A

pessimistic

hostile towards nature

39
Q

two anti transcendentalists

A

herman melville

nathaniel hawthorne

40
Q

what is the name for a short, witty saying

A

aphorism

41
Q

from which college did emerson and thoreau graduate from

A

harvard

42
Q

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

A

self- reliance

43
Q

name the poem

imitation is _____

A

self reliance

suicide

44
Q

name the poem

our life is frittered away by detail

A

walden

45
Q

name the poem

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

A

walden

46
Q

name the poem

that government is best which governs ______(2 choices)

A

civil disobedience

least
none at all

47
Q

name the poem

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

A

walden

48
Q

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

A

self- reliance

49
Q

name the poem

nature always wears the colors of the spirit

A

nature

50
Q

name the poem

sell your clothes and keep your thoughts

A

walden

51
Q

name the poem

i ask, not at once no government, but at once a _____ government

A

civil disobedience

better

52
Q

name the poem

trust thyself; every heart vibrates to that iron string

A

self-reliance

53
Q

name the poem

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

A

walden

let-alone

54
Q

did emerson and thoreau live in concord

A

true

55
Q

did throreau spend time in jail

A

true

56
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emerson shocked harvard graduates by speaking against Christianity

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true

57
Q

powerful metaphor in harlem

A

or does it explode like a bomb

58
Q

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

A

sing songy tetrameter

the harsh death

59
Q

harlem renaissance poets -3

A

langston hughes
gwendolyn brooks
countee cullen

60
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victorian poets -3

A

a.e. housman
thomas hardy
alfred lord tennyson

61
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who wrote tess of the d’urbervilles

A

thomas hardy

62
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what was important about “the eagle

A

did not have a them

63
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what was important about “winter”

A

wasn’t beautifull

64
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four line stanza is called

A

quatrain

65
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three line stanza is called

A

triplet

66
Q

what is gwendlyon brooks’s calling card

A

poor urban writer from chicago

67
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what play takes its title from “harlem”

A

a raisin in the sun

68
Q

meaning associated with a word, not the dictionary meaning

A

connotation

69
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repetition of the initial consonants

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alliteration

70
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repetition of vowel soudns

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assonance

71
Q

another name for word choice

A

diction

72
Q

giving human characteristics to an inanimate object

A

personification

73
Q

four types of allusions

A

biblical
literical
mythological
historical

74
Q

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

A

caesauras

75
Q

number of times frost won the pulitzer

A

4

76
Q

presiden who alluded to a frost poem

A

ronald raegan

77
Q

frost spoke at his inauguration

A

JFK

78
Q

another word for off rhyme

A

slant rhyme

79
Q

word that means exaggeration

A

hyperbole

80
Q

soft, melodious sounds

A

euphorous

81
Q

unrhymed lines of iambic pentameeter

A

blank verse

82
Q

five kinds of imagery

A 
auditory
olfactory
tactile
gustatory
visual
83
Q

a four lined stanza

A

quatrain

84
Q

dickinson’s calling card

A

slant rhyme

85
Q

song you can sing dickinson’s poems to

A

amazing grace

86
Q

dickinson asks a critic if her verse is

A

alive

87
Q

novel that has stay gold in it

A

the outsiders

11th Literature/ English (102 decks)

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