English 9 Poetry Question Preview (ID: 23246)


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In the quote Grains of the golden sand-- How few! yet how they creep… creep is an example of which device?
a) metaphor
b) simile
c) personification
d) alliteration

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) analogy
b) refrain
c) rhyme scheme
d) assonance

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) refrain
c) alliteration
d) anaphora

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) anaphora
c) enjambment
d) simile

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) metaphor
c) personification
d) irony

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) alliteration
d) assonance

In A Dream Deferred, Langston Hughes asks 'Does it stink like rotten meat.' This is an example of
a) a delicious odor
b) rhyme scheme
c) denotation
d) imagery

'“Hope” is the thing with feathers' is an example of ...
a) simile
b) metaphor
c) personification
d) irony

The line 'And sore must be the storm ' is an example of ...
a) simile
b) metaphor
c) personification
d) assonance

In the line, 'The only other sound's the sweep', the repetition is called…..
a) refrain
b) alliteration
c) assonance
d) enjambment

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