Chapter 4 Flashcards
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What wrote “The Road not Taken”?
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Robert Frost
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What are dictionary definitions of words?
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denotations
2
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Who is considered to be the greatest American poet of the twentieth century?
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Robert Frost
3
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What is the theme of “The Road not Taken”?
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choices
4
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What are emotional or subjective associations of words?
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connotations
5
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What is the use of words which appeal to the sense to paint word pictures in the reader’s mind?
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imagery
5
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What is using words that sound like what they mean?
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onomatopeia
5
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What is the use of words to convey something beyond their conventional meaning?
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figurative language
6
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What is the correspondence of sounds and rhythm and the regular recurrence of sounds?
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rhyme
7
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What is the repetition of vowel sounds?
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assonance
7
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What is the repetition of a consonant sound?
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consonance
8
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What is the repetition of sounds at the beginning of words?
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alliteration
8
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What is the choice of words to obtain a soft, smooth, or pleasant effect?
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euphony
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What is the choice of words to obtain a rough, harsh, or unpleasant effect?
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cacophony
10
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What is the type of rhyme when only one syllable in the corresponding words rhyme?
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masculine rhyme
10
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What is the rhyme occurring within a line of poetry?
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internal rhyme
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What is the rhyme occurring when two words do not contain identical sounds by instead contain sounds which are similar to each other?
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approximate rhyme
10
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What is the type of rhyme when two or more syllables in the word rhyme?
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feminine rhyme
11
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What is the rhyme when words look as if they should rhyme but do not sound similar at all?
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eye rhyme
12
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What is the poetic pattern?
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foot
12
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What is the regular recurrence of sounds or motion?
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rhythm
12
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What type of foot is accented, unaccented?
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trochee
13
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What is a poem’s established rhythm?
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meter
14
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What type of foot is unaccented, accented?
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iamb
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What type of foot is accented, unaccented, unaccented?
dactyl
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What type of foot is unaccented, unaccented, accented?
anapest
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What type of foot is accented, accented?
spondee
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What type of foot is accented?
monosyllabic foot
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What type of word has one foot?
monometer
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What type fo word has two feet?
dimeter
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What type of word has three feet?
trimeter
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What type of word has four feet?
tetrameter
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What type of word has five feet?
pentameter
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What type of word has six feet?
hexameter
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What type of word has seven feet?
heptameter
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What type of word has eight feet?
octameter
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What is unrhymed iambic pentameter?
black verse
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What is a traditional pattern which applies to the whole poem?
fixed form
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What is written line by line rather than being split into regular stanzas?
continuous form
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What is written in stanzas/
stanzaic form
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What are groups of lines having the same metrical pattern throughout?
stanzas
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Who wrote "A Rainy Day"?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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What are the themes of "A Rainy Day"?
suffering, hope
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What does the rainy weather represent in "A Rainy Day"?
the trials and difficulties in the author's life
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Who wrote "Near Hastings"?
Toru Dutt
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What are the themes of "Near Hastings"?
alimentation vs. belonging, compassion, gratitude
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What was the gift given to the girls as they were sitting on a beach in "Near Hastings"?
roses
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Who gave the girls the roses in "Near Hastings"?
a woman
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What are the words used repeatedly in "The Rainy Day" to represent the themes?
dark and dreary
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What are the themes of "La Grandeza Mexicana"?
God's providence, the wonders of nature
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What is a style of poetry that is difficult to categorize but is often characterized as emotional, complex, and elaborate; it also tends to express intense emotions such as despair or nostalgia through ornate descriptions and the use of various literary devices?
Baroque poetry
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What is a poem that is written as a letter?
epistolic poem
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Who is the poet writing to in "La Grandeza Mexicana"?
a lady
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What is a comparison in which human qualities are given to an inanimate object or animal?
personification
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What work are these lines from: "Oh, thou, heroic heavenly sage profound,/ Miraculously to mankind was given;/ Thine is the land where myriad gifts abound."?
La Grandeza Mexicana
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What are the themes of "Alone"?
choices, personal responsibility
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What do the roads in "Alone" symbolize?
the paths of life that everyone must face
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What does the final step in "Alone" symbolize?
either death or making your own choices
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What work are these lines from: "You can ride, you can travel/ with a friend of your own;/ the final step/ you must walk alone."?
Alone
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What work are these lines from: "But sweeter was the love that gave/ Those flowers to one unknown,"?
Near Hastings
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Who wrote "The Song my Paddle Sings"?
E. Pauline Johnson
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What are the themes of "The song my Paddle Sings"?
the inconsistency of life, determination, nature
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What is addressing an inanimate object as if it were alive, or addressing an absent person as if he were present?
apostraphe
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Who wrote "Sympathy"?
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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What are the themes of "Sympathy"?
freedom, oppression
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What work are these lines from: "I know why the caged bird sings!"?
Sympathy
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What is the symbol of freedom in "Sympathy"?
a bird
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Who wrote "A Prayer in Spring"?
Robert Frost
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What are the themes of "A Prayer in Spring"?
contentment, faith, the wonders of nature
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What work are these lines from: "For this is love and nothing else is love"?
A Prayer in Spring
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What are the themes of "Time"?
the passing of time, the brevity of life
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What work are these lines from: "So we beneath Time's passing breath/ Bow each in turn, - why tears for birth or death?"?
Time
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Who wrote "A Prayer in Spring"?
Robert Frost
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Did the author of "Time" have a positive outlook on time?
no
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Who wrote "As Imperceptibly as Grief"?
Emily Dickinson
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What are the themes of "As Imperceptibly as Grief"?
time, change
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What is the season that has gone away in "As Imperceptibly as Grief"?
summer
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What is a metaphor which is developed at length and is often the controlling image running throughout a literary work?
extended metaphor
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What is the extended metaphor in "As Imperceptibly as Grief"?
Summer
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How does Emily Dickinson view change?
as inevitable, but beautiful
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What work are these lines from: "Our Summer made her light escape/ Into the beautiful."?
As Imperceptibly as Grief
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Who wrote "The Unseen Power"?
Rumi
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What are the themes of "The Unseen Power"?
providence, free will
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What work are these lines from: "Thy invisible wind sweeps us through the world."?
The Unseen Power
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What are people compared to in "The Unseen Power"?
chess pieces
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What are the themes of "Remembered Music"?
the power of music, spirituality
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According to lines 5 and 6 of "Remembered Music," where did music originate from?
the angels
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Who wrote "Remembered Music"?
Rumi
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What is an indirect reference to a person, event, or idea, often from history, mythology, classic literature, or the Bible?
allusion
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What are the themes of "To a Waterfowl"?
providential guidance
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Who wrote "To a Waterfowl"?
William Cullen Bryant
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What is a short lyric poem which praises a thing, person, or concept?
ode
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What type of poem is "To a Waterfowl"?
ode
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Who wrote "Sonnet 361"?
Petrarch
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What are the themes of "Sonnet 361"?
change, time, mortality vs. immortality
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What is a fourteen-line poem usually written in iambic pentameter?
sonnet
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What type of sonnet was perfected by Petrarch, a poet laureate of Rome?
Italian sonnet
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From what work are these lines from: "Who strives with Nature's laws is over-bold/ And Time to his commandment bids us how."?
Sonnet 361
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Who wrote "On the Grasshopper and Cricket"?
John Keats
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What are the themes of "On the Grasshopper and Cricket"?
beauty of nature
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What work are these lines from: "The poetry of earth is never dead:"?
On the Grasshopper and Cricket
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According to "On the Grasshopper and Cricket," when does the grasshopper sing? The cricket?
Summer, winter
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Who wrote "Sonnet 29"?
William Shakespeare
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What are the themes of "Sonnet 29"?
comparison, love
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What is also known as the Shakespearean sonnet because of William Shakespeare's mastery of the form?
English sonnet
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What work are these lines from "For thy sweet love remeber'd such wealth brings/ That then I scorn to change my state with kings."?
Sonnet 29
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What are the themes of "Sonnet 116"?
love
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Who is the author of "Sonnet 116"?
William Shakespeare
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What work are these lines from, "Love is not love/ Which alters when it alteration finds"?
Sonnet 116
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What is a form of Japanese poetry that consists of three lines and seventeen syllables?
haiku
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What means word choice?
diction
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What uses the characters of one language to represent the sounds of another language?
transliteration
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What expresses the words and ideas of one language using the words of another language?
translation
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Who is known as the master of the haiku?
Matsu Bashō
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What illuminates the night in the haiku, "A Damp Night"?
fireflies
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What is the weather like in the haiku "Daffodils"?
cold in early spring
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What is the weather like in the haiku, "A Still Day"?
sunny
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What are the soldiers doing in "An Ancient Battlefield"?
resting because they are dead
108
Who wrote "The Elixir"?
George Herbert
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What are the themes of "The Elixer"?
labor, purpose, perspective
110
What has been a recurring symbol in mythology since early civilizations, though it appears in many forms?
the elixir of life
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What work are these lines from: "Teach me, my God and King, / In a ll things Thee to see, / And what I do in anything, / To do it as for Thee:"?
The Elixir
112
Who is the author of "The Best Thing in the World"?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
113
What are the themes of "The Best Thing in the World"?
gratitude
114
What work are these lines from: "What's the best thing in the world? / --Something out of it, I think."?
The Best Thing in the World
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Who wrote "Remembrances"?
Aleksandr Pushkin
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What are the themes of "Remembrances"?
regret, repentance, hopelessness
117
What is the snake a metaphor for in "Remembrances"?
regret or guilt
118
What work are these lines from, "A fangéd snake my heart devours."?
Remembrances
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Who is the author of "Night"?
Gabriela Mistral
120
What are the themes of "Night"?
maternal love, peace
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What is a figure of speech in which exaggerated elements are used and not to be taken literally?
hyperbole
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What work are these lines from, "Like a gentle, soothing hand/ Upon the earth a quiet lies."?
Night
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What is the author waiting for in "The Morning Glory"?
a person
124
What is China's earliest anthology of poetry?
Shijing
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What are the themes of Shijing?
unrest, time, anticipation
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What work are these lines from: "I climbed the hill just as the new moon showed, / I saw him coming on the southern road. / My heart laid down its load."?
Shijing
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What are the themes of "The Unforeseen"?
the unknown
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What is a form of poetry that has no fixed rhyme or metrical structure and which follows the natural patterns fo speech?
free verse
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What is the continuation of a sentence beyond the line break and onto the next line of a poem?
enjambment
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What work are these lines from: "I want the shock/ of going silently along my dark street, /feeling that I am tapped upon the shoulder, /turning about, and seeing the face of adventure."?
The Unforeseen
