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

2. What techniques are used in line 19, "’Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines"?
(a) Onomatopoeia and alliteration.
(b) Sibilance and onomatopoeia.
(c) Assonance and sibilance.
(d) Alliteration and assonance.

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

4. Which is the first stanza of the poem that is longer than four lines?
(a) 8.
(b) 6.
(c) 9.
(d) 7.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What technique does the first line of the poem, "You may write me down in history," introduce?

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

3. Where does the speaker say she obtained her gifts?

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

5. What body of water does the speaker claim to be in the eighth stanza?

(see the answer key)

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