Kilbourn Poetry Review 2021

Transcendentalism encourages:

• following the rules

• being like everyone else

• joining the majority opinion

• not conforming to what others do and say

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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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

Describe the tone of “I Hear America Singing.”

• Despondent

• Celebratory

• Perplexed

• Dismissive

• Nervous

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

One extended metaphor in the poem "O Captain, My Captain" is the comparison of

• a journey to a ship's deck.

• a ship to the country.

• a captain to a ship.

• a captain to a victory.

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

The use of the phrase "my Captain" in the title and throughout the poem "O Captain, My Captain" suggests that the speaker

• wants to be in charge of the ship.

• feels very loyal to the Captain.

• has a military background.

• is the only one with the Captain.

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

The Harlem Renaissance took place during what decade? 

• 1860's
• 1880's
• 1900's
• 1920's

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

One of the most famous American poets of all-time, he infused jazz and blues rhythms into much of his work.

• Walt Whitman

• Emily Dickenson

• Louis Armstrong

• Langston Hughes

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

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CCSS.RL.9-10.9

The poem has all of the following forms of figurative language except. . .

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

• repetition

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Which phrase from "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" uses purposeful imagery?

• My soul has grown deep like the rivers

• I've seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset

• I've known rivers

• When Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Langston Huges wrote "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"...

• for his mother who worked very hard

• in Mexico with his father

• over several years in Harlem

• on a train when he had just graduated

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4