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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 7 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What technique is used in line 21, "You may shoot me with your words"?
(a) Kenning.
(b) Simile.
(c) Innuendo.
(d) Metaphor.
2. What technique does the first line of the poem, "You may write me down in history," introduce?
(a) Catalog.
(b) Apostrophe.
(c) Allegory.
(d) Verbal irony.
3. What technique is used in lines 7 and 8, "’Cause I walk like I've got oil wells/ Pumping in my living room"?
(a) Juxtaposition.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Simile.
(d) Personification.
4. Which is the first stanza of the poem that is longer than four lines?
(a) 6.
(b) 9.
(c) 7.
(d) 8.
5. 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) Alliteration and assonance.
(d) Assonance and sibilance.
Short Answer Questions
1. What words create a refrain in the final two stanzas of the poem?
2. What is the rhyme scheme of the first seven stanzas?
3. What precious stones does the speaker use to evoke beauty and value in the simile in line 27?
4. How does the speaker characterize herself in line 4?
5. What kind of "certainty" does the speaker claim to have in line 10?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the pattern that stanzas 2, 4, 5, and 7 have in common.
2. What do all of the questions the speaker asks have in common?
3. Describe how the final two stanzas of the poem differ from the first seven stazas.
4. Why is the poem titled "Still I Rise" and not just "I Rise"--what additional idea does the word "Still" convey?
5. What specific historical phenomenon does the speaker talk about rising above in the final two stanzas, and what allusion does she use to introduce the topic?
6. In the final stanza, what metaphor does the speaker use, and what does it signify?
7. What oppressive actions does the speaker suggest "you" might take, and how does she say she will respond?
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