American Literature

What poem describes the speaker's desire to temporarily escape the immediate cares of the world?

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

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• alliteration

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

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• alliteration

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

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

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

Who wrote "Trees"?

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

Who wrote "General William Booth Enters into Heaven"?

Who is this author?

• Ernest Hemingway

• John Grisham

• William Wordsworth

• E.E. Cummings