The little boy crying by Mervin Morris

In the poem, The little boy crying, the following themes can be found EXCEPT___

• Love

• Childhood experiences

• Joy

• Parenting

What expression in the poem, the little boy crying, expresses juxtaposition?

• Recently relaxed

• Your mouth contorting in brief spite and hurt...your bright eyes swimming tears

• You must not make a plaything of the rain.

• Soon victim of the tale's conclusion.

Which literary device is used in the expression, 'swimming tears'?

• Metaphor

• Consonance

• Oxymoron

• Hyperbole

What literary devices are most prominently used in the first stanza of the poem?

• Consonance and hyperbole

• Metaphor and hyperbole

• Consonance and alliteration

• Consonance and anaphora.

What figure of speech is used in line 5 (swimming...splashing) and line 9 (colossal...cruel)?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia