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What is an iamb?

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What is an anapest?

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What is a trochee?

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What is a dactyl

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What is a spondee

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The function of poems in Spoon River Anthology

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What are epitaphs on gravestones?

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The theme of Lucinda Matlock

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What is It takes life to love life?

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A musician who loves having a good time

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Who is Fiddler Jones?

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The irony of Richard Corey

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What is Cory is wealthy and admired but kills himself

nonetheless?

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He hates his life and wishes he could live in another time

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Who is Miniver Cheevy?

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The theme of Ars Poetica

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What is the idea that poetry should use images to reveal

meaning?

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The theme of Poetry

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What is poems should present imaginary gardens with real toads in them?

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A poem that does not approve of death

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What is Dirge Without Music?

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The refrain of Recuerdo

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What is We were very tired, we were very merry--/We

had gone back and forth all night on the ferry?

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Love can make live special and worthwhile

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What is the theme of anyone lives in a pretty

how town?

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The meter of Chicago

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What is free verse?

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The poet who influence Carl Sandburg

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Who is Walt Whitman?

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The poem alluded to in Penelope

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What is The Odyssey

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The poetic technique Frost uses to emphasize the

situation in Stopping by Woods

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What is consonance?

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The theme of Mending Wall

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What is Before I built a wall Id like to know/What I was walling in or walling out?

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The poetic technique used to emphasize Johnsons love

of New York in My City

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What is imagery?

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The type of poem and meaning of McKays If We

Must Die

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What is a Shakespearean sonnet about the need to stand up and fight in the

face of persecution?

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The purpose of the metaphor of eating in the kitchen in Hughes I, Too

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What is to highlight the place of African-Americans in US society, both in the

present and in the future?

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The rivers mentioned in Hughes The Negro Speaks

of Rivers

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What are the Euphrates, the Congo, the Nile, and the

Mississippi?

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The poetic technique Hughes uses in Dream

Deferred and the purpose of using that technique

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What are similes used to warn of the negative

consequences of ignoring or postponing dreams?