Amanda Gorman

"She knows hope is like a stubborn ship gripping a dock"

is an example of ...

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• simile and personification

Answer explanation

Notice the comparison using "like"--that's the simile.

"stubborn" and "gripping" describe the qualities of a person, so the answer is also personification.

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

we can't blow it

we owe it

to show it

not slow it

• end rhyme

• internal rhyme

• anaphora

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

"Lake Michigan defiantly raising its big blue head to Milwaukee and Chicago"

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• symbol

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"a meadow of resistance"

• simile

• metaphor

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"There's a poem in Charlottesville / where tiki torches string a ring of flame"

• Allusion to a city

• Allusion to tiki torches

• Allusion to an infamous white supremacist rally.

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

"the black, the brown, the blind, the brave"

• alliteration

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

"Tyrants fear the poet / Now that we know it"

• internal rhyme

• end rhyme

• These lines do not rhyme

Answer explanation

remember that the / indicates a new line and even though the words do not have the same spelling, they do have the same sound, so this is an example of an end rhyme.

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

"Heather Heyer blooms forever"

• metaphor

• allusion

• allusion and metaphor

Answer explanation

Heather Heyer was a victim during the Charlottesville racist rally. She was a protester who was run down by a driver. "Blooms forever" suggest a comparison that she is a flower (like heather, which is a type of flower).

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

"There's a poem in Los Angeles / yawning wide as the Pacific tide"

• simile and personification

• personification

• simile

Answer explanation

"Yawning" is a word describing a person. "As" makes the comparison, so it is also a simile.

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

"defeated, repeated, completed"

Provide another word that would rhyme with this list of words.

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CCSS.RF.1.2A

CCSS.RF.2.3A

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.K.1D

CCSS.RF.K.2A