Carl Sandburg

In Young Sea, By Carl Sandburg, what is the conflict of the poem in stanza 2?

The sea speaks

And only the stormy hearts

Know what it says:

It is the face

Of a rough mother speaking.

• The sea speaks, but no one hears.

• The sea is only for angry hearts.

• The sea is harsh and only for those who are brave, "have stormy hearts."

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In Young Sea, By Carl Sandburg, where does tone shift in Stanza 4?

• They love the sea

• Men who ride on it

• And they know they will die

• Under the salt of it

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In Summer Grass, by Carl Sandburg, what figurative language is being used in stanza 1?

Summer grass aches and whispers

• allusion

• alliteration

• personification

• smilie

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In Summer Grass by Carl Sandburg, what is the conflict and how does it get resolved?

It wants something;

It calls and sings; it pours

Out wishes to the overhead stars.

The rain hears; the rain answers;

The rain is slow coming;

The rain wets the face of the grass

• The grass is dying. It calls out to the stars who hears it, and sends rain down.

• The grass sends wishes to the stars who talk to the rains that never come.

• The grass needs water. It calls out to/ sings to the sky who hears it and sends rain down.

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This poem was written by...

• Alan Seeger

• Carl Sandburg 

• Sara Teasdale

• Ernest Hemingway 

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In “Grass” Sandburg makes reference to Gettysburg, Austerlitz, Waterloo, Ypres, and Verdun. What does Sandburg accomplish with this particular selection of geographical place names?

• He wants to demonstrate the randomness of war

• He wants to demonstrate the universality of war

•  He wants to demonstrate the increasing destructiveness of war

• He wants to demonstrate the increasing violence of war

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Sandburg’s speaker addresses his audience using primarily what kind of sentences?

• declarative and exclamatory

• imperative and declarative

•  interrogative and exclamatory

• declarative and interrogative

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Although “Grass” is written in free verse, it creates rhythms and cohesiveness through _______.

• repetition (anaphora)

• metronomic rhythms

• rhyme 

• alliteration 

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In the poem "Chicago," what does Sandburg call the city?

• "The Windy City"

• "City of the Big Shoulders"

• "The Second City"

• "The City of Lights"

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In the poem 'Chicago' by Carl Sandburg, what is the primary theme?

• A) The beauty of nature

• B) The struggles and strengths of urban life

• C) The tranquility of rural living

• D) The inevitability of death

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