American Literature

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

(a)  

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CCSS.RL.8.5

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

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• alliteration

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CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

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CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

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

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• alliteration

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CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.5

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

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CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

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

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CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.5

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

(a)  

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CCSS.RL.11-12.11

Who wrote "Trees"?

(a)  

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CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

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CCSS.RI.K.6

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

(a)  

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

Who wrote "General William Booth Enters into Heaven"?

(a)  

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CCSS.RL.9-10.9

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Who is this author?

• Ernest Hemingway

• John Grisham

• William Wordsworth

• E.E. Cummings

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.11