Weary Blues: Literary Devices | Weary Blues: Figurative Language | Let America be America Again: Literary Devices | Let America be America Again: Figurative Language | I, Too |
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What is answers may vary?
This is an example of enjambment in "Weary Blues".
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What is Alliteration and Personification?
Line 10 contains these two devices.
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What is an Anaphora?
“I am the poor white … /I am the red man …” is an example of this.
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What is a Metaphor?
“O, I’m the man who sailed those early seas” is an example of this.
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What is Enjambment?
Lines 4, 5, and 6 contains this type of literary device.
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What is Repetition?
This literary device is seen in lines 6 and 7.
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What are Hands and a Key?
Line 9 compares these 2 objects.
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What is an Apostrophe?
“O, Pioneers” in stanza 10 is an example of this.
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What is an Idiom?
“Of dog eat dog …” is an example of this.
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What is a Free Verse?
"I, Too" is this type of poem.
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What is Refrain?
This is what lines 11,13, and 15 are know as.
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What is a Simile?
The last line of the poem contains this kind of figurative language.
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What is AA?
The rhyme scheme of stanza 6 is this.
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What is the Poor and the Speaker?
Line 4 of stanza 10 compares these two things.
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What is Respect, Equality, and Opportunity?
This is the meaning of the symbol in line 9.
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What is none?
This is the main meter of stanza one.
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What is an Onomatopoeia?
This figurative language device is used in the first line of the second stanza.
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What is Enjambment?
“Tangled in that ancient endless chain/ of profit, power, gain, of grab the land” in stanza 9 is an example of this.
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What is an Onomatopoeia?
“Mumble,” used in line 1 of stanza 7, is this.
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What is Line 8?
This is the line in which the major shift of the poem occurs.
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What is AABCBC?
This is the rhyme scheme of the first 6 lines of "Weary Blues".
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What is The Blues?
This is the biggest symbol of the poem.
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What is an Interjection?
Stanza 12 is this.
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What is a Simile?
Line 3 of stanza 15 has this type of figurative language in it.
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What is a Plantation?
This is the most likely setting of the poem.
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