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1. In a poem, the speaker says, 'I carried the river's silence home.' Which term best describes the voice speaking in the poem?
  1. The poetic persona
  2. The stanza
  3. The refrain
  4. The metre

Answer: A. The poetic persona

The poetic persona is the constructed speaker whose voice is heard in a poem.

2. After a roof leaks throughout the night, a character calls the room 'a wonderfully dry place to sleep'; which device is chiefly used?
  1. Personification
  2. Verbal irony
  3. Euphemism
  4. Onomatopoeia

Answer: B. Verbal irony

The speaker's praise contradicts the plainly wet room, creating verbal irony.

3. A story takes place in a coastal town during a prolonged drought, amid strict communal customs; which element includes these circumstances?
  1. The plot
  2. The setting
  3. The point of view
  4. The climax

Answer: B. The setting

Setting includes the time, place, and social conditions in which events occur.

4. A character turns slightly away from the others and tells the audience, 'I know the map is false,' while the other characters continue talking; this speech is a(n)
  1. chorus
  2. soliloquy
  3. prologue
  4. aside

Answer: D. aside

An aside is a brief comment heard by the audience but conventionally not by the other characters.

5. In a poem, one line ends with 'The child ran past the gate and into' and the next begins 'the orchard before the rain began'; which technique carries the sentence across the line break?
  1. Enjambment
  2. Caesura
  3. End rhyme
  4. Couplet

Answer: A. Enjambment

Enjambment occurs when a sentence or phrase continues beyond the end of a poetic line.

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