The following lines are an example of what sound device? “Poetry is old, ancient, goes back far. It is among the oldest of living things. So old it is that no man knows how and why the first poems came.” From Carl Sandburg's "Early Moon"

The following lines are an example of what figure of speech? "I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you / Till China and Africa meet, / And the river jumps over the mountain / And the salmon sing in the street." from W. H. Auden's "As I Walked Out One Evening"

Essentially a reference to something else, this literary device intentionally relies on the reader's understanding of history and/or literature. An example is the line "Night's Plutonian Shore" from Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven," with Plutonian being a reference to the Roman God of the Underworld, Plato. Note that Hades is the Greek equivalent to the Roman Pluto.

A word that sounds like what it means. Examples include buzz, splash, thump.

An object or action that means something more than its literal meaning. An example is the apple in The Book of Genesis representing temptation, knowledge, the fall of humankind.

The central meaning or dominant message the writer/poet is trying to deliver to the reader

The pattern of rhyme that comes at the end of each verse or line in poetry - An example rhyme scheme is ABAB.

Identify the rhyme scheme of the following poem by Robert Frost titled "Neither Out Far Nor in Deep." "The people along the sand / All turn and look one way. / They turn their back on the land. / They look at the sea all day. / As long as it takes to pass / A ship keeps raising its hull. / The wetter ground like glass / Reflects a standing gull."

All of the following artistic choices would add layers of meaning to the central theme of a poem except

"The moan of doves in immemorial elms, / And murmuring of innumerable bees." The aforementioned line--from Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem "Come down, O Maid" is an example of

William Shakespeare employs several examples of what figure of speech in these lines from his classic play Romeo and Juliet: "Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate" (1.1.1818) and "Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health" (1.1.185).

The use of these three lines from a poem by Maya Angelou--titled "Alone"-- best shows an example of what literary element?

Alone, all alone

Nobody, but nobody

Can make it out here alone.

In Poe’s poem titled "Alone," “the red cliff of the mountain” and the “autumn tint of gold” best demonstrate Poe’s use of what literary element?

The line--from Poe's poem "The Raven"-- "And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming" is an example of what literary device?

Poe's expressive symbol "Night's Plutonian Shore" means

A type of literature that use the sounds, rhythms, and meanings of words to describe the world in striking and imaginative ways

A line or group of lines that is repeated at regular intervals throughout the poem. An example is Poe repeating the line "Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore'" 5 times in his narrative poem "The Raven."