Spring Final Flashcards
A brief story about an interesting or humorous incident is called
an anecdote
For a great tree, death comes as a gradual transformation
this is the author’s
thesis
an extended point-by-point comparison between two things
an analogy
the writer’s attitude towards his or her subject is called_____
revealed through diction
tone
uses an analogy comparing reading a river to reading a book
Life on the Mississippi
uses an incident of a boy with an adult and later tells how the adult influenced him
A Whole Nation and a People
uses a powerful personal experience and then compares it to past personal experiences
A Taste of Snow
uses a problem, one who helped address the issue, a solution, and a quotation from a book
The Flight of Rachel Carson
uses chronological order and spatial progress, and then describes emptiness and usefulness
the death of a tree
author of Mending Wall
Robert Frost
The Death of Sennacherib
George Gordon
Dream Deferred
Langston Hughes
I’ll Tell You How the Sun Rose
Emily Dickinson
The Day is Done
Longfellow
Jazz Fantasia
Carl Sandburg
The Fawn
Edna S. V. Millay
The Meadow Mouse
Theodore Roethke
Eldorado
Edgar Allan Poe
The Cloud
Shelley
Read songs from some humbler poet
Whose songs gush from his heart
As showers from the clouds of summer
Or tears from the eyelids start
these lines are…
simile
The hills untied their bonnets
this is a …
personification
The moon tiger
In the room here
these are…
metaphor
Slowly silently now the moon
Walks the night in her silver shoon
these are…
alliteration
At Woodward Gardens
Robert Frost