Literature Questions
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"Slow the low gradual moan came in the snowing"- is an example of what?
Lamp and stamp- is an example of what
"How frail Above the bulkOf crashing water hangsAutumnal, evanescent, wanThe moon." - is an example of what?
What was the purpose of the British soldiers singing the song "Yankee doodle"?
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary- is an example of what
"The poison sacs of the town began to manufacture venom, and the town swelled and puffed with the pressure of it."- is an example of what?
Which poets participated in the revival of religion and spirituality?
What is the timeline fo the second generation of Romantic poets?
In which works does Cowper criticize slavery and colonial expansion?
Give the name of a short lyric poem written by Byron
"Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana"
"I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was: man is but an ass, if he go about to expound this dream ..."
The title of Seamus Heaney's autobiographical poem "Singing School" alludes to a line from W.B. Yeats's "Sailing to Byzantium"
5 lines; 1st and 5th line have 2 syllables; shaped like a diamond
3 lines; 1 stanza; 5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables; no rhyme scheme; depicts the essence of a specific moent in time
Celebrates an everyday common object; short lines; lots of enjambment
"With its leaping, and deep, cool murmur"
"With swift, slow; sweet, sour; dazzle, dim"
5 lines; AABBA; lines 3 and 4 are indented; humerous
The tortoise and the hare from that one fairytale thing