Question

This dust was once the man,
Gentle, plain, just and resolute, under whose cautious hand,
Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age,
Was saved the Union of these States

Walt Whitman

What literary device does this poem include at the end of each line?

Alliteration

Assonance

Consonance

Onomatopoeia

Answer 1

@jgirl128

Answer 2

I'm confused by thiss...

Answer 3

alliteration is the use of the same letter/sound at the beginning of connected words

assonance is the repetition of the sound of a vowel in stressed syllables close enough to each other for an echo to be distinguishable
(an example is: "hear the mellow wedding bells" or "try to light the fire" or "the crumbling thunder of seas"

consonance is the compatibility between opinions or actions
(an example is: blank and think, spelled and scald, far and jar, borrow and sorrow, slithe and slather, etc)

onomatopoeia is a sound that spelt out in a word (example: meow, sizzle, pop)

Answer 4

I don't think it's A or D.

Answer 5

slither*

Answer 6

yea it's definitley not those...

Answer 7

I think it may be assonance

Answer 8

same....

Answer 9

because it says "at the end of each line" so it'd be the words: man, hand, age, states

Answer 10

mhm!!

Answer 11

This dust was once the man,
Gentle, plain, just and resolute, under whose cautious hand,
Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age,
Was saved the Union of these States

Walt Whitman

What is the "foulest crime in history"?

Creation of United States

Election of Pres. Lincoln

Civil War or slavery

Death or warfare

Answer 12

is this...B?

Answer 13

the poem was dedicated to Abraham Lincoln when it was originally written so I'd say it's C

Answer 14

because Lincoln was "against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age"

Answer 15

ooh!!

Answer 16

and I'm sure you know about Lincoln and slavery and the Civil War

Answer 17

yea, i juist misread and thought it was asking who it was about..

Answer 18

it's no problem :) just glad you understand now

Answer 19

yea! same! ty oxox

Answer 20

his dust was once the man,
Gentle, plain, just and resolute, under whose cautious hand,
Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age,
Was saved the Union of these States

Walt Whitman

What can you interpret from the title and first line of the poem?

Whitman wrote it to be his own death announcement.

Whitman wrote it years after the death of Lincoln.

Whitman believes no one remembers his work.

Whitman believes no one remembers Lincoln.

Answer 21

the first line is "this dust was once the man" and btw the title is "this dust was once the man"

Answer 22

I don't think it's B because Whitman wrote the poem shortly after Lincolns death

Answer 23

it's definitely not A because that doesn't really make sense

Answer 24

yea, A and B dont match

Answer 25

....i feel like C & D are like sort of smiliar, but maybe its D?

Answer 26

they're similar but totally different at the same time. do you think Whitman thinks that Lincoln himself won't be remembered or Lincolns work won't be remembered?

Answer 27

actually, i think that it may be C.. and sorry i pressed a button and it did that lol

Answer 28

I think it's D. because we're not talking about the entire poem, we're talking about the first line of poem/the title of the poem

Answer 29

.....true

Answer 30

so yea. that makes more sense for it to be D

Answer 31

get it now? :)

Answer 32

yess:)

Answer 33

good

Answer 34

This dust was once the man,
Gentle, plain, just and resolute, under whose cautious hand,
Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age,
Was saved the Union of these States

Walt Whitman

What is the word just most likely an allusion to?

Lincoln's career as a lawyer

Lincoln's death at war's end

Whitman's war reporting

Whitman's poem writing

Answer 35

only one left...

Answer 36

....would it be B?

Answer 37

what word?

Answer 38

......the word just

Answer 39

oops, sorry. I thought it was just apart of the sentence bc it didn't have quotations

Answer 40

lol its okayy :P

Answer 41

allusion means indirect reference and just can mean behaving according to what is morally right and fair

Answer 42

I think it's A

Answer 43

what do you think?

Answer 44

....oh ok:)

Answer 45

last oone!!!

Answer 46

congrats :) hope you get a better grade! sorry for yesterday

Answer 47

This dust was once the man,
Gentle, plain, just and resolute, under whose cautious hand,
Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age,
Was saved the Union of these States

Walt Whitman

Who is "the man" the dust now represents?

The narrator

A criminal

Whitman

Lincoln

Answer 48

lincoln?

Answer 49

and stahhhp saying sorry its fine

Answer 50

I don't think it's A or B. and since it's dedicated to Lincoln, I'd say it's D.

Answer 51

yayy :P thanks sooo much !