Grass--Carl Sandburg

This poem was written by...

• Alan Seeger
• Carl Sandburg 
• Sara Teasdale
• Ernest Hemingway 

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Austerlitz and Waterloo are two famous battles from which conflict?

• Civil War
• World War I
• Napoleonic Wars
• American Revolution 

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Gettysburg is a famous battle site from which war?

• American Civil War
• World War I
• War of 1812
• Revolutionary War

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Ypres and Verdun are notorious battle sites in which war?

• Napoleonic Wars
• World War I
• War of 1812
• American Civil War

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Which literary term is BEST represented in the following line? "Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo."

• Allusion
• Enjambent
• Metaphor 
• Apostrophe 

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The poem can be described BEST by which of the following?

• Flowery and profound 
• Complex and hypocritical 
• Short and to the point 
• Important and well known 

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The speaker in the poem is...

• a soldier
• the grass 
• an angel 
• We are not sure. 

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The structure of this poem could be described as...

• A sonnet
• free verse
• a limerick 
• rhyming couplets

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The repetition of the phrase “And pile them high...” at the beginning of consecutive lines is known as...

• allusion 
• apostrophe 
• anaphora 
• metonym 

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In the poem, the grass is MOST interested in...

• performing its duty of growing and covering bodies
• stopping the construction of the railroad
• destroying all the humans 
• ending all conflict and fighting 

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