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English 9 Poetry
Test Description: Poetic devices analyzed
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) In the quote Grains of the golden sand-- How few! yet how they creep… creep is an example of which device?
A
metaphor
B
alliteration
C
simile
D
personification
2) All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream is repeated like a chorus in Poe's poem, what is this device called?
A
assonance
B
analogy
C
rhyme scheme
D
refrain
3) While I weep--while I weep! This repetition of the same line back to back within Poe's poem is known as ...
A
analogy
B
anaphora
C
alliteration
D
refrain
4) In the line Or fester like a sore— And then run? from Langston Hughes, the --- creating the long pause is known as...
A
caesura
B
simile
C
enjambment
D
anaphora
5) In A Dream Deferred, the line 'Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?' compares a raisin to a dream deferred. This is known as ….
A
simile
B
irony
C
metaphor
D
personification
6) In A Dream Deferred, the line 'sugar over— like a syrupy sweet' has repetition of sounds. This repetition is called..
A
refrain
B
rhyme scheme
C
assonance
D
alliteration
7) In A Dream Deferred, Langston Hughes asks 'Does it stink like rotten meat.' This is an example of
A
rhyme scheme
B
denotation
C
a delicious odor
D
imagery
8) '“Hope” is the thing with feathers' is an example of ...
A
personification
B
irony
C
metaphor
D
simile
9) The line 'And sore must be the storm ' is an example of ...
A
simile
B
metaphor
C
personification
D
assonance
10) In the line, 'The only other sound's the sweep', the repetition is called…..
A
alliteration
B
assonance
C
refrain
D
enjambment
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