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Phillis Wheatley
Review from the lesson on Phillis Wheatley
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What year was Phillis Wheatley born? | 1754 |
| What poem was the first Wheatley had published? | "Messrs. Hussey and Coffin" |
| Who took Phillis Wheatley to London to find a publisher? | Nathaniel, the son of her owners |
| What chronic condition did Phillis Wheatley have? | asthma |
| What president did Phillis Wheatley meet? | George Washington |
| What is rhyme scheme? | The ordered patterns of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse. |
| What is imagery? | visually descriptive or figurative language. |
| What is a personification? | giving personal or human characteristics to something nonhuman. |
| How old was Phillis Wheatley when she wrote "A Hymn to the Evening?" | twenty years old |
| What is a couplet and did Wheatley use this style? | two lines of verse joined by rhyme that form a unit; yes. |