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Poetry Puzzlers

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In Robert Herrick’s “To the Virgins,”GATHER ye rosebuds while ye may,     Old time is still a-flying : And this same flower that smiles to-day     To-morrow will be dying.”

What is rhyme (perfect rhyme)?

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What kind of rhyme is Donne utilizinghere?“O stay, three lives in one flea spare,Where we almost, yea, more than married are.”

What is slant or near?

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“Fred found forty frogs.”

What is alliteration?

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The sound of the frog’s “splash” in our haikusample was an example of this.

What is onomatopoeia?

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The harsh sounds of the words “Ajax”and “strives” in “Sound and Sense” createthis kind of sound.

What is cacophony?

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“Had we but world enough, and time……An hundred years should go to praiseThine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze;Two hundred to adore each breast,But thirty thousand to the rest”

What is hyperbole?

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A crucible is a kind of bowl used to heat up chemicals or metals in alchemy.

Philosophically, the term crucible can refer to activities that are very difficult, but act as a

refining or hardening process.

In the play, Proctor is "purified” and regains his integrity and standing in the town, by

refusing to confess, making the title a _______.

What is a symbol?

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When Whitman listed all of the different jobs he witnessedin his travels around America in “I Hear America Singing,”

he was writing this kind of poem.

What is catalog?

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Looking at the associations of the word “blooming” in Whitman’s poem is looking at this device.

What is connotation or diction?

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A statement that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.

What is a paradox?

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What is personification?

“The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,     The higher he's a-getting,The sooner will his race be run,     And nearer he's to setting.”

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What is personification?

In “To the Virgins,” Robert Herrick utilizes this figure of speechhere:“this same flower that smiles to-day     To-morrow will be dying.”

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What is a metaphor?

Donne is utilizing this figure of speech when he say, “This flea is you and I.”

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What is a simile?

"He now dug into the poor clergyman's heart, like a miner searching for gold”

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What is a metaphor?

Marvell utilizes this figure of speech to describe how time is running out: “Time's winged chariot hurrying near.”

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“Those that I fight I do not hateThose that I guard I do not love.”

What is parallelism?

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What is first-person narration?

The Crucible is a(n) ________________, becauseArthur Miller realized the McCarthy trials of hisday reminded him a lot of the witch trials in Salem.

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What is a theme?

A deep, difficult to understand, or moralisticmessage of a piece of literature.

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The hero, the villain, the princess, the trickster, etc

What is archetype?

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When a passage has multiple interpretations like John Proctor’s statement that they need

Flowers to freshen up the room at their house in The Crucible.

What is ambiguity?

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When Edwards appealed to his listeners’ feelings of fear in “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.”

What is pathos?