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Poetry Unit

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Name six New England statesRhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine
Where was Frost born?San Francisco
What were the jobs Frost had during his lifetime?wool mill, shoemaker, teacher, editor, farmer
Where did Frost move? When?England, 1912
What did Frost win 4 timesthe Pulitzer Prize
Whose Presidential Inauguration did Frost speak?John F. Kennedy, in 1961
Who spoke at President Clinton's Inauguration?Maya Angelou
What did Frost write about?Nature
What did Frost believe about nature?It was beautiful but also dangerous
What poems did Frost write?Fire and Ice, Stopping by woods on a snowy evening, Dust of Snow
Who influenced Langston Hughes?His grandmother, Mary Langston
What did Hughes write about?segregation, discrimination
What laws did Hughes have to follow?Jim Crow laws
What music influenced Hughes?blues and jazz
Why did Hughes feel lonely and alienated?his mother left him alone, his grandmother died, he went to an all white school and lived in a white neighborhood, he was discriminated against
What poems did Hughes write?Negro, Ku Klux, Aunt Sue's Stories, Merry-Go- Round
Alliterationusing repesting consonant sounds- tongue twisters
Personificationgiving personal qualities to objects that are not human
Onomatopoeiausing words to represent sound- Boom!
Similecomparison using like or as
Metaphorcomparison without like or as
Stanzadivision of a poem
Repetitionwhen a word or phrase is repeated in a poem


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