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- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.The Modern Period of American literature was from _______ through _______.1960s - now1910s - 1930s2000 - Present1860s - 1920s
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.The Modern Period was greatly influenced by _______________.The Roaring '20sWWI
the Great Migrationall of these - Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.World War I began in ______.1914189719221945
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Modernist poets accepted new subject matter, but they held firm to traditional poetic forms.TrueFalse
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Modern poets broke punctuation and capitalization rules because they did not believe that there should be rules for these things.TrueFalse
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.All Modern poetry is free verse.TrueFalse
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.An example of a new, Modern kind of subject matter could be the beauty of nature.TrueFalse
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Men poets in the Modern period wrote poetry about previously stigmatized subjects like vulnerability.TrueFalse
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Many Modern poets wrote in free verse.TrueFalse
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Robert Frost often used free verse poetry to explore new subject matter.TrueFalse
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Who wrote it? - "Chicago"Carl SandburgRobert FrostWilliam Carlos WilliamsAmy Lowell
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Who wrote it? - "Grass"Carl SandburgRobert FrostWilliam Carlos WilliamsAmy Lowell
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Who wrote it? - "Birches"Carl SandburgRobert FrostWilliam Carlos WilliamsAmy Lowell
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Who wrote it? - "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"Carl SandburgRobert FrostWilliam Carlos WilliamsAmy Lowell
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Which poem tried to defend the poet's city from critics?"Fireworks""Stopping by Woods""Grass""Chicago"
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.When a poet speaks directly to an inanimate object it is called ____________.alliterationallusionapostrophe
anaphora - Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.The theme of "Birches" was climbing trees.TrueFalse
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Frost is known as a Modern poet because of his _____________.poetic formsubject matterfailures in life
love of nature - Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Sandburg had an idealized view of Chicago. He really didn't think it was all that bad.TrueFalse
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.A poetic stanza with two lines is called a _____________.cinquainquatraincoupletoctave
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.A poetic stanza with five lines is called _______________.
cinquain quatrain couplet octave - Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.A poetic stanza with eight lines is called _____________.
cinquain quatrain couplet octave - Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Which word means "impoverished"?belligerantwantonhuskygamut
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.To whom is Sandburg referring when he says "those who sneer at my city"?relativesfriendscritics of Chicago
citizens of Chicago - Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions."Such heaps of broken glass" is an example of a _____________.metaphorsimile
alliteration personification - Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Which of the poems connects swinging on trees to escaping from adulthood?"Grass""Birches""Chicago"
none of these - Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.How does the speaker in "Birches" describe the bent tree limbs?Like girls on hands and knees.Like war grounds.Like skyscrapers.Like crooked politicians.
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Which of the poems is an anti-war poem?"Birches""Chicago""Grass""Stopping by Woods"
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Identify the literary device
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"After a rain. They click upon themselves."alliteration metaphor onomatopoeiasimile - Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Identify the literary device
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"He always kept his poise to the top branches, climbing carefully..."alliteration metaphor personification simile - Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Identify the literary device
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But I was going to say when Truth broke in with all her matter-of-fact...alliteration metaphor personification simile - Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Identify the literary device -
"And life is too much like a pathless wood."alliterationmetaphorpersonificationsimile