Still I Rise

"Does my haughtiness offend you? 
Don't you take it awful hard
'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin' in my own back yard."
What word has the same meaning as haughtiness is used in this stanza?

• Modesty
• Meekness
• Arrogance
• Respect

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Read the stanza from the poem.
'Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise. "
Why does she repeat "I rise?"

• To emphasize.
• To understate.
• To depreciate.
• To forget.

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

"But still, like air, I'll rise," this line is an example of which type of figurative language?

• simile

• metaphor

• allusion

• personification

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

"Out of the huts of history's shame," this quote is which of the following?

• An allusion of love

• An allusion of slavery

• simile about her life

• a metaphor about Africa

"I'm a black ocean," this quote is which type of figurative language?

• personfication

• simile

• metaphor

• allusion

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CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

"Just like the moon and like suns...still I'll rise." What is this quote emphasizing?

• Her love for science

• Her getting up when she falls on the ground

• Her ability to continuously overcome obstacles.

"Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom?" Based on the way beset is used, which is the best synonym?

• unhappiness

• plagued

• sadness

• free

"You can cut me with your eyes," is an example of which type of figurative language?

• personificaiton

• allusion

• metaphor

• simile

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Even the title "Still I Rise," implies that the mood will most likely be which of the following?

• sorrowful

• discouraged

• ecstatic

• inspiring

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

The poem "Still I Rise" has a tone that can best be described as which of the following?

• hateful

• meloncholy

• confident

• cheerful

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CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5