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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: "Still I Rise," Lines 1 - 43 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What technique does the first line of the poem, "You may write me down in history," introduce?
(a) Catalog.
(b) Verbal irony.
(c) Allegory.
(d) Apostrophe.

2. What technique is used in line 29, "Out of the huts of history’s shame"?
(a) Juxtaposition.
(b) Allegory.
(c) Allusion.
(d) Oxymoron.

3. What technique is used in line 21, "You may shoot me with your words"?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Simile.
(c) Innuendo.
(d) Kenning.

4. In line 17, what kind of a person is described by the word "haughtiness"?
(a) Arrogant and proud.
(b) Strange and eccentric.
(c) Mean-spirited and petty.
(d) Sneaky and dishonest.

5. What words create a refrain in the final two stanzas of the poem?
(a) "I rise and rise."
(b) "Again I rise."
(c) "Still I rise."
(d) "I rise."

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the speaker characterize herself in line 4?

2. What precious stones does the speaker use to evoke beauty and value in the simile in line 27?

3. What techniques are used in line 19, "’Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines"?

4. Which is the best definition of "beset" in line 6?

5. What is the rhyme scheme of the first seven stanzas?

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