Beat, Beat Drums

What is the significance of the title of Beat! Beat! Drums! and the repetition of it in the first, second, and third stanzas?

• It sets the rhythm for the rest of the poem 
• It is an onamonapia
• There is none
• It creates a sound like drums

What is not a literary device used in this line?
Beat! beat! drums!—blow! bugles! blow!

• Alitteration
• Onamonapia
• Repetition
• Imagery

What event is Whitman most likely alluding to in this poem?

• Revolutionary War
• Civil War
• Major American Battle
• World War 1

What is the setting of this poem?

• The battlefield
• A home base
• A town 
• A church

What is the device used in line 8 and 15

• Consonance
• Assonance
• Refrain
• Imagery

What kind of poem is this?

• Free Verse
• Ode
• Dramatic Monolouge
• Sonnet

Who is the speaker speaking to?

• The audience
• The town
• The war
• The instruments

What does the rhythm and the onomatopoeia parallel in the poem?

• The drums
• The bugles
• Military band
• Sound of war

What do the bugles and drums symbolize?

• The sounds of war
• The war itself
• Soldiers marching in the town
• The townspeople's voices

What would not be a theme of this poem?

• Rule and Order
• Death
• War
• Music