31 pages 1 hour read

Frank O'Hara

Ave Maria

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1964

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Literary Device Questions

1. What literary device is demonstrated in the lines “but what about the soul / that grows in darkness” (Lines 5-6)?

A)    Simile

B)     Enjambment

C)    Juxtaposition

D)    Allegory

2. What literary device is demonstrated in the lines “they won’t hate you / they won’t criticize you they won’t know” (Lines 8-9)?

A)    Metaphor

B)     Epistrophe

C)    Anaphora

D)    Irony

3. What literary device is demonstrated in the lines “that grows in darkness, embossed by silvery images” (Line 6)?

A)    Consonance

B)     Assonance

C)    Alliteration

D)    Repetition

4. What literary device is demonstrated in the lines “and if somebody does it’ll be sheer gravy” (Line 24)?

A)    Hyperbole

B)     Repetition

C)    Colloquialism

D) Synecdoche