Lit Devices Check-Up

The following lines are PRIMARILY an example of what literary device?
"We are vessels. We are circuit boards
swallowing the electricity of life upon birth.
It wheels through us creating every moment,
the pulse of a story, the soft hums of labor and love.
In our last moment it will come rushing 
from our chests and be given back to the wind.
When we die. We go everywhere."

• simile
• anaphora
• hyperbole
• extended metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The following lines are PRIMARILY what TWO literary devices?
"With an ear to the Atlantic I can hear
the Titanic's band playing her to sleep,"

• personification and allusion
• allusion and anaphora
• imagery and hyperbole
• allusion and simile

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

The following lines are PRIMARILY what literary device?
"I found it in your voice Stephen,
I found it in a young boy in Michigan who was always singing...
I found your smile in Australia,"

• repetition
• refrain
• anaphora
• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The repetitive diction in the poem, "Pass On", points the reader to which four subjects?

• Newton, basketball, wind, and death

• Michigan, Australia, Harvard, and Boston

• thunderstorms, windstorms, music, and gravity

• lost and found, electricity, music, and wind

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

In the poem, "Pass On", what does the wind symbolize?

• the speaker
• Stephen only
• the speaker's grandfather only
• both Stephen and the speaker's grandfather

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

In the poem, "Pass On", electricity is symbolic of what?

• death
• life
• Isaac Newton
• Stephen

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

The following lines are PRIMARILY what literary device?
"The day Stephen was murdered
everything that made us love him rushed from his knife wounds
as though his chest were an auditorium
his life an audience leaving single file."

• onomatopoeia
• allusion
• extended metaphor
• symbolism

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5