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Who wrote the poem "Daddy"?

Which of the following is a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks?

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Which of the following is a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks?
We Real Cool
Her Kind
The Oven Bird
There's a certain Slant of light
2
Who wrote the poem "Daddy"?
Gwendolyn Brooks
Anne Sexton
Emily Dickinson
Sylvia Plath
3
What is diction?
Descriptive language
Word choice
words having a meaning not deducible from individual words
expression that is different than its literal meaning
4
Who wrote "Barbie Doll"?
Sylvia Plath
Marge Piercy
Anne Barton
Jane Martin
5
Which of the following is NOT a Robert Frost poem?
Ode on a Grecian Urn
The Need of Being Versed in Country Things
The Most of It
Mending Wall
6
Which of the following is NOT an Emily Dickinson poem?
Lady Lazarus
Wild Nights - Wild Nights
I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Because I could not stop for Death
7
Who wrote "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"?
John Keats
Sylvia Plath
Robert Frost
T.S. Eliot
8
What is imagery?
giving human qualities to inanimate things
comparing two unlike things
visually descriptive or figurative language
an example that provides clarity
9
Who wrote "Harlem"?
Langston Hughes
e.e. cummings
William Shakespeare
W. H. Auden
10
What is consonance?
occurrence of the same sound near closely connected words
recurrence of similar sounds (consonants) in close proximity
exaggerated statements not meant to be taken literally
the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong
11
Who wrote "Sonnet 73"?
Robert Frost
Emily Dickinson
Langston Hughes
William Shakespeare
12
What is an idiom?
contradictory terms which appear in conjunction
a word that actually looks like the sound it makes
words having a meaning not deducible from individual words
expression using language that usually signify the opposite