The Poetry of Emily Dickinson

This example contains which literary term?
Sally sells seashells by the seashore

• Simile
• Alliteration
• Personification
• Repetition

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Emily Dickinson was known for which of the following in her poetry?

• Rhyme scheme
• Narrative poetry
• unconventional punctuation and capitalization
• Alliteration

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Emily Dickinson's poems were often about:

• school

• death

• history

• science

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Which literary term is used in the following example:

"Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me..."

• alliteration

• alliteration

• personification

• simile

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Which literary term is used in the following example:
"I wandered lonely as a cloud"

• alliteration
• repetition
• simile
• personification

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What is the following poem's rhyme scheme?

Hickory dickory dock

The mouse ran up the clock

The clock struck one

the mouse ran down

Hickory dickory dock

• AABCA

• ACDC

• AABBA

• No rhyme scheme

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All of the following are important steps to analyzing poetry EXCEPT

• Reading the poem several times

• Simplifying vocabulary for understanding

• Finding the rhyme scheme

• Summarizing each stanza in your own words

• Researching the poem analysis online

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The Soul selects her own society is an example of which element of literature

• metaphor

• alliteration

• rhyme

• simile

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The description "Like Stone---" in line 12 of "The Soul selects her own Society---" creates a feeling of

• attentiveness
• celebration
• permanence
• fullness

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Who shuts the door in "The Soul selects her own Society--"?

• the chariots
• the marjority
• an emperor
• the soul 

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