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8th Grade Final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Born on December 10th, in 1830. | Emily Dickinson |
| Born on October 31st, 1795. | John Keats |
| Born on May 31st, 1819. | Walt Whitman |
| Born on March 26th, 1874. | Robert Frost |
| This poet was born in San Francisco but moved to New England at age 11. | Robert Frost |
| This poet's family discovered over a thousand poems that had been written after the poets death. | Emily Dickinson |
| This poet lost both of his parents at a young age | John Keats |
| This most famous work of this poet is known as Leaves of Grass | Walt Whitman |
| This poet's wife was named Elinor. | Robert Frost |
| By the 1860's this poet lived in almost complete isolation. | Emily Dickinson |
| This poet was born in Amherst, Massachusetts. | Emily Dickinson |
| This poet was the oldest of four children. | John Keats |
| This poet founded a weekly newspaper called, The Long-Islander. | Walt Whitman |
| This poet wrote the poem titled, "I'm Nobody, Who are You?" | Emily Dickinson |
| "Hear the sledges with the bells" is the first line of a poem by who? | Edgar Allan Poe |
| Name two items that represent symbolism in the poem, "The Cremation of Sam McGee" | Cold, stars, the corpse, the midnight sun |
| This poet wrote a poem called, "O Captain, My Captain" | Walt Whitman |
| Name one metaphor used in, "I'm Nobody, Who are you?" | The bog and the frog |
| The repetition of initial consonant sounds | Alliteration |
| A poem in verse that tells a story | Ballad |
| An unrhymed form of poetry that consist of ten syllables. | Blank Verse |
| The pattern of repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry | Meter |
| The use of a word whose sound suggests its meaning | Onomatopoeia |
| The repetition of vowel sounds without the repetition of consonants. | Assonance |
| The rhyming of words that appear at the ends of two or more lines of poetry | End Rhyme |
| A two line stanza | Couplet |
| The similarity or likeness of sound that exist between two words | Rhyme |
| The repeating of words or phrases | Repetition |
| A comparison of two unlike things | Metaphor |
| This poet wrote a poem about a grasshopper and a cricket | John Keats |
| This poet died at age 55 | Emily Dickinson |
| This poet died on March 28th, 1886 | Walt Whitman |
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