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Answer each of the following questions with a response of one sentence to several sentences. Use details from both texts to support your responses.
1. How is personification used in both “I Hear America Singing” and “Chicago”? How do these instances of personification relate or contrast?
2. What adjectives best describe the tone established in each poem? If you were to deliver a reading of each poem aloud, what poetry sound devices (such as assonance, consonance, alliteration, euphony, cacophony, onomatopoeia, pacing, and rhythm) would help you to best convey the appropriate tone of each poem?
3. Considering rhyme scheme, line length, and meter, what poetry term accurately labels both “I Hear America Singing” and “Chicago”? Regarding those features, how does the reader’s experience while listening differ with each poem?
4. Find and note examples of parallelism and/or anaphora (repetition words at the beginning of successive lines) in each poem. How does each poet utilize these literary devices in accomplishing his poem’s message?
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A Glimpse
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America
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A Noiseless Patient Spider
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Are you the new person drawn toward me?
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As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days
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Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
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For You O Democracy
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Hours Continuing Long
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I Sing the Body Electric
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I Sit and Look Out
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Leaves of Grass
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O Captain! My Captain!
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Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night
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When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
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When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
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