Poetry Test Flashcards

Question

Negro speaks of rivers

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Point out history of black people in America and how history flows across seas back to ancient rivers which witnessed birth of humanity Characters the black narrator Personification Mississippi sings Muddy river shines after emancipation Refrain my soul has grown deep like rivers Tone reflective and respectful Parallel structure(I bathed I build I looked)

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Langston Hughes

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Langston Hughes

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About holding onto dreams is motivation force within us without them we are nothing refrain hold fast to dreams Life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly Life is a barren field frozen with snow Tone motivational Written in quatrains Reginald rhyme scheme and rhythm

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Langston Hughes

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Bait a woman giving advice saying he should t expect life to be perfect bc there will always be obstacles Speaking from experience Life to staircase Images going into dark where no light breaking racial boundaries Life not a crystal stair Tone truthful tough love Free verse

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About insecure man wanting to change bc physical appearance Skinny bald unappealing Wants a date Talks himself out of each one Dramatic monologue Metaphor smoke to cat bc of movements Streets that follow like a tedious argument Allusion to j baptist Lazarus hamlet Great time passed Will have to be revived from seasonal death Lacy of confidence Greek mythology allusion to sirens he is so unappealing even sure se don't want him Girls talking to Michelangelo wants to be a part Season changes are his ages he is in autumn Tone sad self loathing Free verse

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Nobel prize winner pioneer of modern poetry Most obscure of era Influenced by Symbolists

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Marianne Moore

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Anne k porter

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Work about southern women obligation From south Deprived of family Slow worker

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Haunted by her fiancé leaving her at the alter Reassures herself because she got remarried and says she wouldn't trade that Bothers her till death shows she never made peace with it Compared heaven to a place where she will see the man who left her is not ready to die for that reason Feels like she as seen hell in the way she felt She is jilted from a sign from God because she wants to feel is presence but doesn't Grammy successfully resists female social roles by caring for her family herself Free verse

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Earnst Hemingway

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``` Style of writing made measure of excellence Wounded knew in war Poems reveal his life especially war Depressed Adventurer ```

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``` Soldier comes home from war Unmotivated Characters Krebbs unmotivated Sister loves Mom loves him wants him to pray he doesn't love her Dad not present Comes him late from war does have stories lays around watches girls mom wants him to work tell her he doesn't love her can't pray decides to leave and work lies at first but doesn't like it so he just stops having conversations Free verse ```

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Langston Hughes

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``` Imagery Similes Alliteration What happens to dreams of they don't come true do the shrivel Fester and then run Linger forever Become good Bring you down Or create chaos Tone contemplative Regular rhyme scheme Free verse ```

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Reference to someone or something known for on history literature religion politics sports or other

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Literary movement from 19 century France writers rearrange world of appearances to reveal a more truthful version of reality called for images to evoke complexities of meaning and mood

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29 century movement with hard clear images that express everyday speech

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Poetry that does not conform to regular rhyme scheme or meter

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Figure of speech in which something dead I present or no human is addressed as if it were alive and present River merchants wife Chicago

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Metrical foot in poetry that has an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable

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Found in butch weldy Love story of prufrock Soldiers home Character who isn't a hero

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Used to describe something but as a name

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Repeated phrase for emphasis

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Butch weldy

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Langston Hughes

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Blacks on the edge of opportunity but can't reach it Bitterness towards longevity of this Prices rose were highly affected because can't get jobs All they can remember Expression of helpless ness Call to action Mood urgent

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Use of language to evoke a picture or concrete sensation of a person place thing or experience

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Poem in which a character speaks to one or more listeners whose responses are not known J and prufrock Mother to son Apostrophe

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Precision to concreteness and decoration | Free verse overrides traditional poetic forms

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Born from symbolism Form of expression in which artists rearranged world appearances seeking to depict a different more truthful version of reality

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Both stress importance of ideas and feelings Emphasized independence of individual Against mechanization Symbolists found no spiritual renewal in nature

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Symbolists focus on individualism was so appealing to American poets because of the issues in American history such as women's roles in society, segregation, and the destruction of the American Dream

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Made it easy to understand | Used concrete clear images

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Generations reject poetry because it has a connotation that involves digging into a complex place yourself and decoding the things that aren't literal

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Poetry written in untuned iambic pentameter