Honors 9 Poetry Review (identifying devices in poem excerpts)

"Sometime to hot the eye of heaven shines, / And often is his gold complexion dimm’d;" contains which device:

Diction choices like "sole to crown", "imperially", and "richer than a king" in "Richard Cory" establish a motif of

"A host, of golden daffodils;/...fluttering and dancing in the breeze." is an example of:

In "Miniver Cheevy" why does the author include allusions to "Thebes", "Camelot", and "Priam's neighbors"?

In "That Girl" why does Soto repeat the line "the Nile is the longest river" several times throughout the poem?

In the first stanza of "Barbie Doll", dolls, stoves and irons, and lipsticks are mentioned. These serve as:

When the author mentions the biblical garden of Eden in the poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay" this is an example of

"An Afternoon...Movies" mentions "Billy the Kid", "Cleopatra", and "Will Smith", these references are called:

"For oft, when on my couch I lie/ In vacant or in pensive mood," What is the tone at the end of "I wandered lonely..."

Diction choices such as "Catholic boy", "doves", and "guilt pulling at an ear" create a motif of

"Yes: quaint and curious war is!" from "The Man he Killed" is an example of:

Diction choices like "hung on like death", "not easy", and "battered" carry a positive/negative connotation

In "Ode to the West Wind" Shelly calls the Wind a "destroyer and preserver" what two techniques are used here

In "Ode to W. Wind", the line "yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red, / pestilence stricken multitudes" create:

In "Richard Cory", the lines "one calm summer night" and "put a bullet through his head" demonstrate

Which of the following lines from "I Like to see it lap the miles" demonstrates alliteration

In Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 end couplet, "So long lives this, and this gives life to thee". What does "this" refer to?

"Continuous as the stars that shine" is an example of:

"And I will luve thee still, my dear,/ Till a' the seas gang dry" is an example of:

"I looked up, and gazed for what / my mother and sister could not offer" uses which technique to create meaning:

"Complaining all the while / In horrid—hooting stanza—" contains which of the following devices: