POETRY TEST
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- personification
- giving human qualities to nonhuman or inanimate things
- nonstandard speech
- dialect
- literal language
- language taken at its common, surface meaning
- figurative language
- language in which things on the surface actually represent something else or something deeper
- who wrote conscientious objector
- edna st vincent millay
- who wrote the weary blues
- langston hughes
- who wrote jazz fantasia
- carl sandburg
- who wrote tell all the truth but tell it slant
- emily dickerson
- stanza
- in a poem, a group of lines separated by white space
- sensory language
- the same as imagery; language that appeals to the five senses: sight, sound, hearing, taste, touch
- repeated initial consonant sounds
- alliteration
- all
- is like also all
- what is going on in cuba and the balkans
- business
- dao
- who uses several oxymorons in his poem "all"
- the man in "a man" lost what
- his arm
- oxymoron
- two words with opposite meanings paired together
- metaphor
- one thing is compared to another
- all, every
- is the refrain in this poem "ALL"
- enjambment
- the opposite of end stop