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Poetry Quiz 1

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This poem was a complete personification.
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"Bailando"
"Maestro"
"The Desert is my Mother"

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Q1
This poem was a complete personification.
"Bailando"
"Maestro"
"The Desert is my Mother"
30s
Q2
This poem involved a flashback at line 6 to his childhood.
"Maestro"
"Bailando"
"The Desert is my Mother"
30s
Q3
This poem involving many -ing words...
"Maestro"
"Bailando"
"The Desert is my Mother"
30s
Q4
The -ing words had the effect of showing...
movement
alliteration
past tense
30s
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
30s
Q6
Each couplet, couple of lines, shows what in "The Desert is my Mother?"
the weather
The relationship between the two
the hatred
30s
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
30s
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
30s
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
30s
Q10
What repeats in "The Desert is my Mother?"
windy songs
raindrops, raindrops
cactus, cactus
I say / She...
30s

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