What is the primary purpose of poetic devices in a poem?

Analyzing Poetic Devices in 'Mending Wall'

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To confuse the reader
To reduce the poem's complexity
To enhance the poem's effect
To make the poem longer
2.
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In 'Mending Wall', what does the wall symbolize?
A barrier between humans
A symbol of nature
A symbol of friendship
A physical barrier
3.
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Which line in 'Mending Wall' is an example of a metaphor?
Like an old stone savage armed
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
Stay where you are until our backs are turned
Good fences make good neighbors
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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What is a simile?
A question without an answer
A direct statement
A contradiction that is true
A comparison using 'like' or 'as'
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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Which line from 'Mending Wall' is an example of personification?
And to whom I was like to give offence
We have to use a spell to make them balance
My apple trees will never get across
Something there is that doesn't love a wall
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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What is alliteration?
Repetition of vowel sounds
A question that doesn't need an answer
Repetition of consonant sounds
A play on words
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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Which line from 'Mending Wall' is an example of assonance?
Something there is that doesn't love a wall
Where they would have left not one stone on a stone
We have to use a spell to make them balance
Good fences make good neighbors
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