Unit 10 Review Flashcards

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William Carlos Williams’ “The Widow’s Lament in Springtime” is characterized by

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the direct and specific way he talks about his subject

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in William Carlos William’s poem “The Widow’s Lament in Springtime,” the widow contrasts

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“grief” in my heart today with my “joy” formerly

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the approach e.e. cummings uses by abandoning traditional forms of spelling, grammar, and spacing in his writing has the Imagist effect of

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making the image he is creating more apparent

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to make his image more alive, the poet e.e. cummings, in his poem “in Just,” creates new words such as

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mud-luscious, puddle-wonderful, baloonman

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in his poem “in Just” e.e. cummings creates an image of spring with sights and sounds

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the baloonman whistles

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what figure of speech does Moore incorporate in Lines 21-22 of her poem “poetry”?

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simile

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Marianne Moore may have included Lines 23-24 in her poem “Poetry” because

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she was a baseball fan

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according to Marianne Moore in “Poetry,” to be interested in poetry you must

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demand the raw material of poetry plus that which si genuine

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the message of Marianne Moore’s poem “poetry” is that

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good poetry is genuine, useful, and real

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in T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” Lines 40-44 about Prufrock’s thinning hair, arms, and legs indicate

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that Prufrock worries about growing old, even though he keeps telling himself “there is time”

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Eliot uses the image of “prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet” in Lines 27 of “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” to illustrate

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Prufrock’s need to “prepare” a face to hide behind when meeting other people

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