Unit 4 american literature – Flashcards

In the poem "This is my letter to the World," using "Me" in the exact rhymes in lines 2 and 4 of both stanzas—

Which lines in the poem "This is my letter to the World" relate to the poet's reclusive nature?

An epigram is a group of consecutive lines that forms a structural unit in a poem. You can analyze a poem's structure by looking at the poem's rhyme and by noticing epigrams.

In the poem "A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim," Whitman uses the three dead soldiers to symbolize the—

In the poem "A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim," Whitman emphasizes the—

"A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim" begins early one morning in an army camp. The speaker peers at the faces of three dead soldiers, including an old man, a youth, and a man whose face seems like the face of Jesus Christ. These anonymous soldiers soon come to represent not only the range of human tragedy in the war but also the possibility of redemption.

From his description of the runaway slave in "I understand the large hearts of heroes," you can infer that Whitman—

Free verse poetry is written without regular meter or rhyme.

In "I understand the large hearts of heroes," Whitman lists heroes who are—

"I Hear America Singing" can best be described as

Which of the following is the best example of someone who is blithe in "I Hear America Singing"?

A popular teacher, Whitman let students call him by his first name and devised games to help them learn spelling and arithmetic.

The things that Death's carriage passes in "Because I could not stop for Death" are noteworthy because they—

Irony is a discrepancy between appearances and reality. It is when what is expected to happen is different from what actually happens, or when the meaning of something stated is different from its literal meaning.

In "Much Madness is divinest Sense," compares—

In the poem "The Soul selects her own Society," after the soul chooses one society, she sometimes—

Verbal irony occurs in a story when a prediction made early on becomes true by the end of the story.

In the poem "I celebrate myself, and sing myself," Whitman celebrates—