Cervantes' Starfish

What is the subject of "Starfish?"

• Starfish
• The sea
• Life
• Death

Who is the author of "Starfish?"

• Barbara Hurd
• Lauren Cornates
• Lorna Dee Cervantes
• Robert Frost

"They were lovely in the quartz and jasper sand" is an example of which rhetorical device?

• Alliteration
• Imagery
• Personification
• Enjambment 

"Lifelong liberation from the sea" is an example of what rhetorical device?

• Alliteration
• Assonance
• Repetition
• Enjambment

"Together: little martyrs, soldiers, artless suicides" is an example of what rhetorical device?

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Enjambment
• Rhythm

Who is the speaker in "Starfish?"

• The poet
• The reader
• The starfish
• The detached narrator

What is the intended audience of "Starfish?"

• Academic classrooms
• Universal audience
• Marine biologists
• Other poets

What is a stanza?

• A poem paragraph( lines separated by a break)
• A line in a poem
• Four lines that rhyme
• Lines that indicate the theme of the poem 

What is the connotation of the word "sprawled?" 

• Discarded
• Flailing
• Floundering
• Stretched 

Which of the following is NOT a figure of speech?

• "As if they had created terrariums"
• "The sea polishes small stones"
• "Thousands of flawless, five-fingered specimens"
• "Miniature mussels"