Poetry in America - 1865-1945 - Final Exam Review

Who ate the plums?

Although Whitman didn’t actually ‘fight’ in the Civil War, he did volunteer as a nurse witnessed the war’s carnage.

William Carlos Williams' poetry was influenced by his work as a doctor and experience answering house calls.

What poem is this line from? “And I’d like to be a bad woman, too"

Harriet Monroe wanted Poetry magazine to focus exclusively on contemporary poetry and pay its contributors.

Title & Poet? The truth is a calm world,/In which there is no other meaning, itself/Is calm, itself is summer and night

Langston Hughes’ “Harlem” conveys what it’s like to have a “dream deferred.” Which of the lines has an entire simile?

Hughes’ “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”, every line in the 3rd stanza begins with “I.” What literary device is this?

Countee Cullen's Poem "To Certain Critics" responds to which poet:

"The Tropics in New York" by Claude McKay is mostly about

"Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic, Sung in the Year 1888" is a poem about:

TS Eliot's "The Wasteland" references Latin myths,World War I, and Dante’s Inferno, displaying what literary technique?

Both "I Sit and Sew" by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson and "Sheltered Garden" by H.D.

In Carl Sandburg’s “Chicago”, the way several lines in a row begin with “And they tell me” and “Until” is an example of

Dorothy Parker’s poem “The Red Dress” was written in a historical moment when women’s fashion was changing drastically.

What's the best definition of enjambment?

Both William Carlos Williams and Wallace Stevens:

Carl Sandburg’s “Mamie” is a young girl with big dreams. Once she gets to Chicago, how do her desires change?

What Robert Frost poem is this line from? “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—/ I took the one less traveled by”

Enjambments and end-stops are two examples of _____?

Which of the following is a cultural or technological innovation that took place during the period we call “Modernism”?

Name the poet and title of this poem -- "To make a poet black, and bid him sing!"

An ars poetica is:

Many sonnets have a line or two where the tone or direction of the poem changes. What do we call this change or ‘turn’?

In Robert Frost’s famous “Mending Wall”, what is the neighbor’s beloved expression for maintaining the stone wall?

W. E. B. Du Bois uses terms “second-sight” and “double-consciousness” to describe life for a Black person in the USA

In “When Lilacs Last in Dooryard Bloom’d”, Whitman memorializes the death of which American figure

A quatrain is:

In this line, "I, too, dislike it," What is the poet Marianne Moore referring to?

Alexander Posey’s “Coyote" represents Native peoples violently removed from their homes. What literary device is this?

The lines  “But, oh! how the Rebs did hate it” and “And learned to read ‘em well” are examples of what kind of language?

Cullen’s “From The Dark Tower” describes the “night” as having human qualities. What literary device is this?

The speaker of Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Sonnet IV" shows coming of age by

A sonnet:

A poem or song that mourns the loss of someone or something is an example of...

In these famous lines from William Carlos Williams’s “To a Poor Old Woman”, which literary device is Williams using?

What's the best definition of orientalism?

Langston Hughes' "The Weary Blues" features which of the following poetic devices?

Edgar Lee Masters' "Mrs. Kessler":

George Moses Horton, poet, lived as an enslaved man for most of his life. He compares his poetic abilities to:

Georgia Douglas Johnson’s “Black Woman" features a mother warning a child about

Which of the following lines does Claude McKay use as a refrain in his poem “Flame-Heart”?

What literary device is used? “By the bivouac’s fitful flame, A procession winding around me, solemn and sweet and slow”

Which of the following is true of the religious movement called spiritualism?

What is an epitaph?

What describes elements of Wallace Stevens' poetry?

The Civil War was fairly tame, with less than 100,000 casualties and little damage done to the environment or property.

Inspired by Charles Demuth’s painting “I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold”, William Carlos Williams wrote "The Great Figure"

Marianne Moore’s “The Fish” has a pattern where each line has a certain number of syllables. What is the term for this?

Walt Whitman's "Beat! Beat! Drums!" uses which two musical instruments to generate enthusiasm about the Civil War?

In Emily Dickinson’s “[They dropped like Flakes -]”, which of the following lines is an example of a simile?

The spiritual “Were You There” makes several references to the Bible and Christ’s crucifixion. These are an example of:

Paul Laurence Dunbar was well-known for his dialect poems. Which of the following lines is an example of dialect?