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Poetry Quiz 1

Quiz by Anna Adams

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  • Q1
    This poem was a complete personification.
    "Bailando"
    "Maestro"
    "The Desert is my Mother"
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  • Q2
    This poem involved a flashback at line 6 to his childhood.
    "Maestro"
    "Bailando"
    "The Desert is my Mother"
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  • Q3
    This poem involving many -ing words...
    "Maestro"
    "Bailando"
    "The Desert is my Mother"
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  • Q4
    The -ing words had the effect of showing...
    movement
    alliteration
    past tense
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  • Q5
    Who is the woman and girl and old lady in the poem "Bailando?"
    The desert
    The author
    a music artist
    The author's aunt
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  • Q6
    Each couplet, couple of lines, shows what in "The Desert is my Mother?"
    the weather
    The relationship between the two
    the hatred
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  • Q7
    In "Maestro" what is an example of alliteration?
    sweet on the tongue
    to the last pure note
    She'd nod, smile, as his bow slid
    when he bows
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  • Q8
    In "Maestro" what is an example of imagery?
    again and again he bows
    to the last pure note/sweet on the tongue
    voz, guitarra, violin
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  • Q9
    In "The Desert is my Mother" what is an example of assonance?
    She shouts thunder, flashes lightning
    I say feed me
    the snow's silence/driest sand
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  • Q10
    What repeats in "The Desert is my Mother?"
    windy songs
    raindrops, raindrops
    cactus, cactus
    I say / She...
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