Think you’ve got your head wrapped around When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. The kind of verse Whitman used for "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" is called
free verse
iambic pentameter
iambic trimeter
sonnet
Q. The speaker's recurring instances of addressing death directly is called
allusion
rhyme
apostrophe
crazy talk
Q. When death is depicted as a "Dark mother" that technique is called
conflict
anaphora
couplet
personification
Q. The "drooping" western star is an example of
theme
mood
sadness
figurative language
Q. The "trinity" of the lilacs, western star, and hermit bird is really a series of
meter
allusion
symbols
external conflict