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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) Allegory.
(b) Verbal irony.
(c) Apostrophe.
(d) Catalog.

2. What is the primary quality that the speaker's stanza eight description of a body of water is intended to convey?
(a) Endurance.
(b) Power.
(c) Independence.
(d) Persistence.

3. Where does the speaker say she obtained her gifts?
(a) From well-chosen friends.
(b) From her ancestors.
(c) From effort and hard work.
(d) From the passage of time.

4. Which technique is used in line 9, "Just like moons and like suns"?
(a) Parallelism.
(b) Dialect.
(c) Allusion.
(d) Euphemism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is the first stanza of the poem that is longer than four lines?

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

3. What words create a refrain in the final two stanzas of the poem?

4. Which two things does the final stanza use to represent the past and present?

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

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