American Literature Test 11

What literary device is used in the following line: "Bringing long peace to Cornland, Alp and Sea"?

• allusion

• consonance

• onomatopoeia

• assonance

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What literary device is used in the following line: "Booth led boldly with his big bass drum-

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What literary device is used in the following line: "when serpents bargain for the right to squirm"?

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What literary device is used in the following line: "Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand:/ Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand."

• allusion

• consonance

• onomatopoeia

• assonance

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Match each theme with the correct poem.

• "Lament"

•  everyday lite must continue, even after someone dies

• "Thursday"

• wonder at God's creation of man

•  "Yet Do I Marvel"

• the immaturity of youth regarding love

• "anyone lived in a pretty how town"

• the memory of a lovely thing is more important than money

• "The Coin"

• life cycle of a typical man who marries, has children, dies, is buried, and goes to eternity

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

What literary device is used in the following line: "Swift autumn, like a bonfire of leaves,/ And sleepy winter, like the sleep of death"?

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What poem by Carl Sandburg is a metaphor of the weather?

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Who wrote "Trees"?

What poem by Langston Hughes is about correspondence between the poet and God?

What poem is one of the most memorable poems of World War I?