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Fireside Poets
Fireside Poets
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English
11th Grade
05/10/2012

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Term
the couple in the poem "The Courtin" by Lowell become ________.
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ENGAGED
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These poets were called this because they considered themselves "High Casts" New Englanders
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BRAHMINS
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What inebriates the speaker in "I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed."
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NATURE
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How old is the speaker in Song of Myself
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37
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The tone of "Much Madness is the divinest sense is _______.
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ANGER, SARCASM
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Was a quaker with little formal education
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WHITTIER
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Some of his poetry used Yankee dialect
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LOWELL
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The literary device in "A Noiseless Patient Spider, when the speaker says he is surrounded yet detached
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PARADOX
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The drums and bugles symboize death and ___in the poem Beat, Beat Drums
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WAR
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Other terms for this word are approximate half and off
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SLANT RHYME
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She was a Prince's child; I but a viking wild
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THE SKELETON IN ARMOR
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The main idea of I Never Saw a Moor
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FAITH
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Who speaks and tells the story of his life in the poem "The skelton in Armor
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VIKING
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his wife died of burns his sonnets were in the form of an Italian sonnet
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LONGFELLOW
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in i heard a fly buzz the onlookers are awaiting the arrival of the _____(death)
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KING
Term
What is the real name of the ship Old ironsides ?
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CONSTITUTION
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Professor of anatomy
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HOLMES
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In the poem "The First Snowfall" by Lowell the father is thinking of a daughter who has _____.
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DIED
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How is death personified in Because I could not stop for Death
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GENTLEMAN
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This poet revolutionized free verse, he was called the good gray poet
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WHITMAN
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The twilight darkens, the curlew calls
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THE TIDE RISES AND THE TIDE FALLS
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Where does the speaker say to look for him in Song of Myself (Under his___)
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BOOTS/SOLES
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The tone of this poem "The first snowfall" by lowell is sadness mixed with _______.
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HOPE
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This type of sonnet is also called a PEtrarchan sonnet
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ITALIAN
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Who are the harpies symbolizing in the poem old ironsides by holmes
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GOVERNMENT
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in the poem "Nature by longfellow the comparison is that of a child going to bed to a person _____.
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DYING
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The person who values success the most in Dicinson's peom is the _______.
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LOSER
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The poem A Noiseless Patient spider is an ____.
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ANALOGY
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How many lines does a sonnet have
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14
Term
Who wrote "Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church"
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EMILY DICKINSON
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employee that keeps up church
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SEXTON
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religious day off from work
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SABBATH DAY
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Who wrote "I taste liquor never brewed"
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EMILY DICKINSON
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Extreme metaphor?
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CONCEIT
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Who wrote "Success is Counted Sweetest"
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EMILY DICKINSON
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Extended metaphor ?
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comparison between two unlikely things to be compared
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slant rhyme?
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vowel souds
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free verse?
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no regular rhyme/rhythm
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yawp?
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serem of accomplishment
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catalog?
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List of people based on social class
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promontory?
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Point of high land sticks over body of water
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Who wrote "I heard a Fly Buzz when I died"
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EMILY DICKINSON
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Who wrote "I never saw a moor"
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EMILY DICKINSON
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Who wrote "Hope is a Thing with Feathers"
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EMILY DICKINSON
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who wrote "Because I could not stop for death"
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EMILY DICKINSON
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who wrote "Much madness is the divinest sense"
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EMILY DICKINSON
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who wrote "A Narrow Fellow in the Grass"
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EMILY DICKINSON
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Who wrote "Song of Myself"
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WALT WHITMAN
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Who wrote "I Hear America Singing"
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WALT WHITMAN
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Who wrote "A Noiseless Patient Spider"
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WALT WHITMAN
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Who wrote "A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak"
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WALT WHITMAN
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Who wrote "Old Ironsides"
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OLIVER HOLMES
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WHo wrote "The Chambered Nautilus"
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OLIVER HOLMES
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Sonnet composed of 3 quatrans and a couplet
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ENGLISH SONNET
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Sonnet Composed of octave and sestet
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ITALIAN SONNET
Term
Rhyme scheme for octave ?
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abba, abba
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Who wrote "Nature"
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LONGFELLOW
Term
Who wrote "Divina Commedia"
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LONGFELLOW
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Who wrote "The Tide Rises, the Tide falls"
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LONGFELLOW
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Who was the "not wealthy" poet
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WHITTIER
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Idyll?
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Poem describes pleasant country scene
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