Unit 4 american literature – Flashcards
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In the poem "This is my letter to the World," using "Me" in the exact rhymes in lines 2 and 4 of both stanzas—
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emphasizes the speaker of the poem.
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Which lines in the poem "This is my letter to the World" relate to the poet's reclusive nature?
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"This is my letter to the World / That never wrote to Me"
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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.
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false
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In the poem "A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim," Whitman uses the three dead soldiers to symbolize the—
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universality of sacrifice.
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In the poem "A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim," Whitman emphasizes the—
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connection between all people affected by the war.
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"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.
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true
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From his description of the runaway slave in "I understand the large hearts of heroes," you can infer that Whitman—
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strongly opposed slavery.
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Free verse poetry is written without regular meter or rhyme.
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True
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In "I understand the large hearts of heroes," Whitman lists heroes who are—
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ordinary people.
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"I Hear America Singing" can best be described as
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a cataloging of people and their work.
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Which of the following is the best example of someone who is blithe in "I Hear America Singing"?
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She smiled and sang when she baked bread.
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A popular teacher, Whitman let students call him by his first name and devised games to help them learn spelling and arithmetic.
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true
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The things that Death's carriage passes in "Because I could not stop for Death" are noteworthy because they—
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are a microcosm of the world knew.
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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.
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true
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In "Much Madness is divinest Sense," compares—
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conformity and nonconformity.
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In the poem "The Soul selects her own Society," after the soul chooses one society, she sometimes—
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shuts herself off from others.
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Verbal irony occurs in a story when a prediction made early on becomes true by the end of the story.
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false
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In the poem "I celebrate myself, and sing myself," Whitman celebrates—
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camaraderie and unity.
