
Whitman and Dickinson Review
Quiz by Tabitha Eastham
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In "I Hear America Singing," what word refers to the collective group of singers?
What word means a state of temporary disuse or suspension?
"The wooly worm wiggles around the world" is an example of what literary device?
In "I Hear America Singing," the speaker hears ______ people.
What famous movie uses the phrase "O Captain! My Captain!"?
According to Section #52 of Song of Myself, where might you find the speaker? Under your _______.
According to Section #6 of Song of Myself, the speaker compares grass to uncut ______.
According to Section #1 of Song of Myself, the speaker thinks that celebrating oneself is the same as celebrating _______.
According to Section #33 of Song of Myself, who wrote, "Be of good cheer, we will not desert you"?
What literary device repeats the same grammatical structure?
According to Section #6 of Song of Myself, the speaker thiks that the dead are ______ and well somewhere.
A barbaric yawp is a loud, harsh ____.
Section #33 of Song of Myself is all about ________ (think theme)
In "Because I Could Not Stop for Death," the children represent _______.
In the first two stanzas of "Because I Could Not Stop for Death, what is Dickinson's tone?
In "The Soul Selects Her Own Society," the _______ shuts the door.
According to "Much Madness is Divinest Sense," people who think i___________y should be "handled with a chain."
In "Because I Could Not Stop for Death," the fields of gazing grain represent m______.
"Tell All the Truth But Tell It Slant," notes that people are wise to tell the truth, but to tell it i______.
In "Because I Could Not Stop for Death," the setting sun represents old age leading into _______.
In "Tell All the Truth But Tell It Slant," the word "lies" has how many meanings? (write out the word)
In "Because I Could Not Stop for Death," the "swelling of the ground" with the "roof scarecely visible" represent her ______.
Who paid for the first edition publication of Whitman's Leaves of Grass?
In "Much Madness is Divinest Sense," the chain represents r______t.
Walt Whitman is knows as the "Father of ______Â ________"
Emily Dickinson was knows as the "________ of Amherst."
Whitman volunteered in Civil War camp hospitals because of his wounded _____.
Walt Whitman's poetic style and subject matter were _____ by critics and readers.
Dickinson didn't get famous for her poems until after her ______.
Who sang "Forty Hour Week (For a Livin')," which can be likened to Whitman's "I Hear America Singing"?
Which United States President was the subject of "O Captain! My Captain!"? (last name)
In "O Captain! My Captain!, " the United States is compared to a ______.
In "O Captain! My Captain!," the "fearful trip," "rack" (torture, strain), and "voyage" that the ship endures are all metaphors for The _____ War.
In "O Captain! My Captain!," i____y exists when the Captain led the ship to safety, but he died while on board.
At age _____, Walt Whitman quit school to help out with his family's household income. (write out the word)
Emily Dickinson's poems had no ________.
Emily Dickinson only had ___ (number written out) poems published during her lifetime.
In "A Noiseless Patient Spider," Whitman is comparing the spider spinning a web that makes contact with the ground to the ____ making a connection with the universe.
In the movie Dead Poets Society, Mr. Keating is fired for his unorthodox ___________ methods, which prompts the students to quote Whitman to him in one final act of allegiance.
In "Much Madness is Divinest Sense," you must agree with society in order to be considered s_____e.
In TPCASTT, summarizing and paraphrasing are the same thing.
In TPCASTT, the last T represents the title revisited.
In TPCASTT, C is where you will note the literary d_________s.
In "A Noiseless Patient Spider," the ______ and the soul are the two subjects of the poem.
Whitman and Dickinson were both alike in the sense that they liked to break the rules of _________.