Leaves of Grass

The most famous poem from Leaves of Grass. It is composed of vignettes.

• I Hear America Singing

• Song of Myself

• On the Beach at Night Alone

• America

More abundant

• Breadth

• Ampler

• Repel

• Slough

Whitman spent his early years working as a printer and as a _____________.

• teacher

• journalist

• mechanic

• shoemaker

In "I Hear America Singing" what is Whitman acknowledging?

• The celebration of the death of an "old self"

• That everything, living or not, is connected

• A wide array of American workers

• The great outdoors

A ___________ is often an ordinary object, event, person, or animal to which we have attached extraordinary meaning and significance.

• Consonant

• Symbol

• Onomatopoeia

• Pun

What is the theme of "On the Beach at Night Alone"?

• Everything is connected

• Children are the future

• America is made of many nations

• A celebration of the "self"

What is "free writing"?

• A technique in which a person writes continuously for a set period of time without regard to spelling or grammar

• A particular order in which related events, movements, or things follow each other.

• An article written by or on behalf of an editor that gives an opinion on a topical issue.

• The use of vowel sounds within words near each other in a sentence

In Whitman's definition ________ does not repel the past or what it has produced. It accepts the lessons of the past with calmness.

• A citizen

• The Universe

• Europe

• America

A story in which characters, settings and actions stand for something beyond themselves.

• Assonance

• Alliteration

• Anaphora

• Allegory

In "I Hear America Singing" Whitman mentions all of the following professionals except the....

• Carpenter

• Woodcutter

• Realtor

• Shoe-maker