American Literature Test 11

What literary device is used in the following line: "Bringing long peace to Cornland, Alp and Sea"?

• allusion

• consonance

• onomatopoeia

• assonance

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What literary device is used in the following line: "Booth led boldly with his big bass drum-

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What literary device is used in the following line: "when serpents bargain for the right to squirm"?

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What literary device is used in the following line: "Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand:/ Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand."

• allusion

• consonance

• onomatopoeia

• assonance

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Match each theme with the correct poem.

• "Thursday"

•  everyday lite must continue, even after someone dies

• "anyone lived in a pretty how town"

• life cycle of a typical man who marries, has children, dies, is buried, and goes to eternity

•  "Yet Do I Marvel"

• the immaturity of youth regarding love

• "Lament"

• the memory of a lovely thing is more important than money

• "The Coin"

• wonder at God's creation of man

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

What literary device is used in the following line: "Swift autumn, like a bonfire of leaves,/ And sleepy winter, like the sleep of death"?

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What poem by Carl Sandburg is a metaphor of the weather?

(a)  

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Who wrote "Trees"?

(a)  

What poem by Langston Hughes is about correspondence between the poet and God?

(a)  

What poem is one of the most memorable poems of World War I?

(a)