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Lesson 9 Assignment: Poetic devices

Authored by Marta Gasiorowska

English

9th Grade

CCSS covered

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Lesson 9 Assignment: Poetic devices
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

To an Athlete Dying Young | What does the laurel wreath symbolize in the poem?

Love and friendship
Victory and honor

Victory, glory, and the fleeting nature of fame

Sadness and regret

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

To an Athlete Dying Young | In the line "The time you won your town the race," what literary device is being used?

Personification
Alliteration
Simile
Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

To an Athlete Dying Young | The phrase "townsman of a stiller town" is an example of which literary device?

Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
Simile
Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

To an Athlete Dying Young | What literary device is used in the line "Eyes the shady night has shut"?

Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

To an Athlete Dying Young | What literary device is present in the line "Smart lad, to slip betimes away"?

Onomatopoeia
Simile
Alliteration
Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

To an Athlete Dying Young | Identify the literary device in the line "silence sounds no worse than cheers."

Oxymoron
Simile
Metaphor
Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Nothing Gold Can Stay | What does the line "Eden sank to grief" allude to in the poem?

The sinking of a person into quicksand
The biblical story of Adam and Eve being expelled from the Garden of Eden
A reference to a famous sinking city
The sinking of a ship in the ocean

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

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