Unit 3 Test Flashcards
Walt Whitman
Song of Myself; O Captain, My Captain;
When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer, I Hear America Singing
Washington Irving
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Emily Dickinson
Because I Could Not Stop for Death;
I Heard a Fly Buzz—When I Died;
My Life Stopped Twice Before Its Close
There’s a Certain Slant of Light; Water, is Taught by Thirst
Edgar Allen Poe
Gothic, wrote: The Raven, The Bells, Annabel Lee
Herman Melville:
Pessimist wrote: Moby Dick
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Pessimist: The Hollow of the Three Hills
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Fireside poet, wrote: Tide Rises, Tide Falls; Psalm of Life;
Song of Hiawatha; The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Fireside poet, wrote: Old Ironsides
William Cullen Bryant
Fireside poet wrote: Thanatopsis
James Russell Lowell
Fireside poet wrote: The First Snowfall
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Transcendentalist wrote: Nature; Self-Reliance
Henry David Thoreau
Walden; Civil Disobedience
O Captain, My Captain!
Imagery
Captain=Abraham Lincoln
Ship=Union/USA
Voyage= Civil War
Mood
The literary device ‘mood’ refers to a definitive stance the author adopts in shaping a specific emotional perspective towards the subject of the literary work.
Parallelism
the use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose that correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning, etc.
plural noun: parallelisms
