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Walt Whitman Poetry

Authored by Kevin Hassard

English

10th - 12th Grade

CCSS covered

Used 94+ times

Walt Whitman Poetry
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1.

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1 min • 1 pt

Whitman’s famous book of poetry that he revised many times over his lifetime is called

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2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Define 'free verse'

Poetry with no regular patterns of rhyme or meter

Poetry with regular patterns of rhyme or meter

Poetry written with a precise meter that does not rhyme.

Poetry with three-line stanzas with a 5/7/5 syllable count

Poetry that normally tells a story about a hero or an adventure

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3.

MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

Whitman, in addition to free verse, used three other techniques frequently in his writing. Check three of them.

Cataloging

Poeticizing

Repetition

Parallelism

Whitmanizing

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4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The speaker celebrates the differences of Americans in “I Hear America Singing” by describing:

types of workers

cultural traditions

positions in society

work tools

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5.

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1 min • 1 pt

In "I Hear America Singing' lines 2-8, Whitman lists several jobs. What poetic device is he using?

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6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Describe the tone of “I Hear America Singing.”

Despondent

Celebratory

Perplexed

Dismissing

Nervous

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7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

In “A Noiseless Patient Spider,” the speaker is similar to the spider because he or she:

stands on the promontory

wants to spin a web

is looking for a connection

is launching a filament

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