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Reinforce Your Poetry Analysis Knowledge!
Reinforce Your Poetry Analysis Knowledge!
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What is a CENTRAL THEME in "Mother to Son"?
Keep moving forward
All of the above
Life has ups and downs
Don't turn back
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Who is the SPEAKER in "Mother to Son"?
The Mother
Langston Hughes
3
"smoke, smoke, too much smoke" is an example of a SIMILE
True
False
4
The first four stanzas in "Five Ways to Kills a Man" are examples of what?
Metaphors
Allusions
Personification
Onomatopoeia
5
Who is the SPEAKER in "Confessions of a Woman Who Burnt Down a Town"
Marie Angelique
The Reader
Afua Cooper
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What is the line "Then the bird said 'Nevermore' " an example of?
Personification
Metaphor
Hyperbole
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Which line is an example of a SIMILE?
"or walk inside the poem’s room and feel the walls for a light switch"
"or press an ear against its hive"
"I want them to waterski across the surface of a poem"
"and hold it up to the light like a color slide"
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Which line is an example of a metaphor?
"So boy, don’t you turn back"
"Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair"
9
In the poem "Afternoons," the speaker is the father.
True
False
10
"Mother to Son" is an example of a FREE VERSE poem
False
True
11
The line "suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door" is an example of:
Rhyme
Onomatopoeia
All of the above
12
"tie the poem to a chair with rope" is an example of PERSONIFICATION
False
True
13
In "A Dream Deferred," what are the questions the poet is asking called? (ex."Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?)
Rhetorical Questions
Leading Questions
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"Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?" is an example of a SIMILE
False
True
