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.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

we can't blow it

we owe it

to show it

not slow it

• end rhyme

• internal rhyme

• anaphora

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

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

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• symbol

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

"a meadow of resistance"

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

"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.

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

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

• alliteration

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

"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.

"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.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

"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.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

"defeated, repeated, completed"

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

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CCSS.L.9-10.5