The Voice of the Rain

There are two voices in the poem. Who do they belong to?

• The rain and the earth

• The rain and the poet

• The rain and the earth

• The poet and earth

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'I am the Poem of Earth, said the voice of the rain' is an example of...

• simile

• Personification

• alliteration

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Hyperbole is a figure of speech with exaggerated statements. An example...

• I am the Poem of Earth

• Bottomless sea

• Upward to heaven

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..... makes use of particular words (figurative language)that create visual representation of ideas in our minds.

• Personification

• Imagery

• Allusion

• Metaphor

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' I am the Poem of Earth' is an example of....

• Personification

• Imagery

• Metaphor

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"Which, strange to tell" means

• The poet was a stranger

• The rain was stranger

• The rain answering the question

• The poet asking a question.

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The Voice of the Rain is written by....

• Shirley Toulson

• Emile Dickinson

• Walt Whitman

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Antithesis, which literally means “opposite,” is a rhetorical device in which two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect. Examples

• Upward to heaven

• vaguely form'd

• Soft-falling shower

• altogether changed, and yet the same

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In this poem, which phenomena is explained poetically?

• Photosynthesis

• Water cycle

• Formation of clouds

• creation of music

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Walt Whitman has drawn a parallel between ....

• rain and earth

• poetry and music

• earth and music

• rain and music

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