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In Song of Myself, Whitman appropriates which ancient style of poetry?

Romanticism was a response against this prior social and scientific movement?

This literary terms refers to how the poet turns the line by running over a sentence or phrase from one poetic line to the next, without terminal punctuation.

The following from Shakespeare’s Sonnet 60 is an example of which figure of speech?: “Nativity, once in the main of light,/Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crowned”

At the time Antigone was written and performed, ancient Athens had this type of government?

This character–a casual wanderer and observer of modern life–was popular in Romantic fiction?

Whitman was part of this American philosophical movement? 

In poetry, a grouping of lines is called what?

Sophocles’ Antigone takes place in Creon’s palace in this city-state?

We measure poetic lines by this basic unit?