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

2. What precious stones does the speaker use to evoke beauty and value in the simile in line 27?
(a) Emeralds.
(b) Diamonds.
(c) Rubies.
(d) Sapphires.

3. In the final quatrain, what does the speaker wonder about upsetting "you" with?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Kindness.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Sexiness.

4. What technique is used in lines 7 and 8, "’Cause I walk like I've got oil wells/ Pumping in my living room"?
(a) Personification.
(b) Simile.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Juxtaposition.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of "Still I Rise"?

2. In the fourth stanza, what kind of person does the speaker ask if "you" want her to be?

3. Why is the speaker's past "rooted in pain" (line 32)?

4. What is the primary quality that the speaker's stanza eight description of a body of water is intended to convey?

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

(see the answer key)

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