Literary Device Lyrics

Which of the following is a simile?

• I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide.

• Your skin is not only dark, it shines and it tells your story

• It's a new dawn

  It's a new day

  It's a new life for me

• Summer came like cinnamon, so sweet.

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

From Glory: "That's why Rosa sat on the bus

That's why we walk through Ferguson with our hands up" is an example of...

• alliteration

• allusion

• metaphor

• simile

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

From "Brown Skin Girl," the line "There's complexities in complexion" is an example of...

• repetition

• rhyme

• alliteration

• personification

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CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

From "Still I Rise": "I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,

Welling and swelling I bear in the tide." uses metaphor by comparing...

• the ocean to the tide

• the speaker to the ocean

• the speaker to sand

• the color black to the sky

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

From "Feeling Good": "Scent of the pine, you know how I feel" is an example of imagery that uses...

• sight

• taste

• touch

• smell

• sound

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

From "Brown Skin Girl": "Your skin, it glow like diamonds" uses simile to...

• show the beauty of dark skin

• show that her skin is hard

• show that her skin is light

• show she is wearing too much makeup

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CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

From "Still I Rise": "Does my sassiness upset you?

Why are you beset with gloom?" personifies...

• the speaker

• the other person

• the speaker's sassiness

• the other person's gloom

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CCSS.L.6.5A

From Brave, Honest, Beautiful: "You can dance like Beyonce" uses simile and...

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

From "Feelin' Good": "Breeze driftin' on by, you know how I feel" is an example of imagery that uses...

• sight

• sound

• touch

• taste

• smell

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

In "Still I Rise," Maya Angelou repeats the phrase "I rise" probably because...

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CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4