Whitman and Dickinson

Dickinson enjoyed being the center of attention.

• TRUE
• FALSE

Dickinson used all of the following techniques in her poetry EXCEPT

• simile
• metaphor
• free verse
• personification

Dickinson preferred this punctuation above all others

• period
• question mark
• comma
• dash

How does Dickinson use personification in "Because I Could Not Stop for Death"?

• The carriage ride takes her to her grave
• Death is seen as a polite gentleman
• The children playing represent youth

What does the fly interrupt in "I heard a fly buzz"?

• The narrator's death
• The family waiting on the narrator's death
• a funeral
  the narrator singing

Dickinson sometimes used this technique to make words that were similar in sound fit the specific rhyme scheme.

• Free verse
• exact rhyme
• alliteration
• slant rhyme

Who was a mentor to Dickinson and helped her with her poetry?

• Henry David Thoreau
• Edgar Alan Poe
• Thomas Wentworth Higginson
• Walt Whitman

In Dickinson's poem "I'm Nobody! Who are You", the narrator does not want to be "Somebody".  What does she mean by "somebody"?

• famous
• other poets
• American workers
• a wife

In the following stanza from "Hope is a thing with feathers", which two words would be examples of slant rhyme?
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.

• feathers, words
• soul, all
• feathers soul
• words, all

What do the "windows" represent in the following stanza from "I heard a fly buzz"?
And then the Windows failed - and then
I could not see to see.

• someone closing the windows in the room
• a window to the soul
• the narrator's eyelids closing for the last time
• the bright light waiting as the narrator dies