Lesson 9 Assignment: Poetic devices

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Oxymoron
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Alliteration

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CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

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

Nothing Gold Can Stay | Which literary device is used in the line "Dawn goes down to day"?

• Simile
• Personification
• Metaphor
• Imagery

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CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Nothing Gold Can Stay | What does the symbol "gold" represent in the poem?

• Worthless and enduring
• Valuable and eternal
• Common and everlasting
• Precious and fleeting

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Nothing Gold Can Stay | In the line "Nature's first green is gold," what literary device is being used?

• Personification
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4