Walt whitman Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Romantic Period RomanticThemes Nationalism, Exoticism, Revolution, Heroism, - Byronic Hero, Passion, Individualism, Naturalism, Mysticism Romantic Contexts Industrial Revolution, American revolution, French revolution, American civil war Romantic period philosophy Idealism, Transcendentalists, nationalism Romantic Philosophers Rousseau, kant, Nietzsche, Emerson English Romanticism William Wordsworth, Samuel Coleridge, Percy Shelley, John Keats, Lord Byro...

Sherwood Anderson -"To show that life in all American small towns is grotesque. -Compassion for the individual mixed with dismay at a social order that can do so much damage -Wing Biddlebaum used to be a schoolmaster who inspired dreams with his hands, but they accuse him of sexually abusing his male students so he had to ran away. He blames his hand and tries to control them; He is destroying himself by doing so. - ANSWER-"Hands" Wallace Stevens • Multiplicity of perspective (13 P...

Language that is being spoken to a person is called _____________ language. - receptive Language that expresses thoughts and feelings to others is called ________________ language. - expressive stressed, unstressed, unstressed - dactylic stressed, stressed - spondee stressed, unstressed - trochaic unstressed, stressed - iambic unstressed, unstressed, stressed - anapestic The __________ English literary time period lasted from . Writers of this time: Charles Dickens, Robe...

Correct Answer-meter What category of poetry is based on unrhymed lines and a definite meter? Correct Answer-blank verse How are blank verse and free verse different? Correct Answer-blank verse has a defined meter, while free verse doesn't How many total syllables do you find in a line of iambic pentameter? Correct Answer-10 The pattern of five sets of unstressed/stressed iambs is called... Correct Answer-iambic pentameter Who made free verse popular among American poets? Correct...

ABCTE ELA TEST PREP 63 Questions with Verified Answers DECONSTRUCTION - CORRECT ANSWER METHOD OF ANALYSIS THAT EXPLORES THE UNDERLYING CONTRADICTIONS WITHIN A WORK DRAMATIS PERSONAE - CORRECT ANSWER THE CHARACTERS OR ACTORS IN A PLAY FALSE DIVISION - CORRECT ANSWER NARROWING THE SCOPE OF THE ARGUMENT BY NOT ALLOWING THE POSSIBLITY OF OTHER OPTIONS HAMARTIA - CORRECT ANSWER TRAGIC FLAW APOSTROPHE - CORRECT ANSWER A FIGURE OF SPEECH IN WHICH A WRITER DIERECTLY ADDRESSES AN INANIMATE...

Dramatic Literary Terms Act, Antagonist, Protagonist, Aside, Catharsis, Static Character, Dynamic Character, Stock Character, Flat Character, Round Character, Climax, Exposition, Rising Action, Falling Action, Comic Relief, Denouement, Deus ex machina, Farces, Foil, Hamartia, Hubris, Monologue, Soliloquy, Comedy, Tragedy Act a series of scenes in a play Antagonist "Villan", person opposing the protagonist Protagonist "Good Guy", opposite of the antagonist Asid...

POETS & POETRY | 1600 | He began a famous poem, ""I celebrate myself, and sing myself"" Walt Whitman 19th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS | 800 | In 1893 this British man published his ""initial"" book, a ""text-book of biology""; many sci-fi novels followed H.G. Wells FRENCH LITERATURE | 2000 | A collection of about 90 tales, ""The Human Comedy"" by this author paints a vivid portrait of 19th c. France (Honoré de) Balzac CONSERVATIVE BOOKSHELF | 400 | Cartoonist Michael Ramirez...

1. According to Takaki, when did the Constitution legalize the institution of slavery? correct answers1987 1. Takaki opens up his article/chapter, "A Different Mirror: The Making of Multicultural America," with his taxi ride in Norfolk, VA. After a brief chat, the taxi driver asks Takaki, "How long have you been in this country?" In response, Takaki says, "All my life... I was born here." Why does the white taxi driver ask this question to Takaki? Why does Takaki begin the article/chapt...

Instructions to Meriwether Lewis - ANSWER-Thomas Jefferson Letters from an American Farmer - ANSWER-Hector St. John de Crevecoeur The Great Nation of Futurity - ANSWER-John O'Sullivan We Choose to go to the Moon - ANSWER-John F. Kennedy Pioneers! O Pioneers! - ANSWER-Walt Whitman Facing West from California's Shores - ANSWER-Walt Whitman The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - ANSWER-Mark Twain The Significance of the Frontier in American History - ANSWER-Frederick Jackson Tu...

Praxis 5038 (2023/2024) Already Graded A Prose Poetry a rhythmic, image-laden, figurative and narrative form Haiku 3-line, unrhyming poem Epic poetry lengthy, narrative featuring heroic deeds Double rhyme feminine rhyme involving one stressed and one unstressed syllable Slant rhyme similar but not identical sounds Feminine rhyme rhyme between stressed syllables followed by one or more unstressed syllables Exact rhyme repetition of the same stressed vowel sound writing log records events o...