Think you’ve got your head wrapped around Lift Every Voice and Sing? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. The line "Stony the road we trod" is an example of which poetic device?
Simile
Juxtaposition
Paradox
Metaphor
Q. The lines, "Let our rejoicing rise/ High as the listening skies" are an example of which poetic device?
Simile
Metaphor
Ambiguity
Irony
Q. The words "the days when hope unborn had died" are an example of what?
Paradox
Juxtaposition
Personification
Simile
Q. The line "We have come over a way that with tears has been watered" has how many syllables?
Ten
Eleven
Thirteen
Fourteen
Q. "[T]he chastening rod" is a metaphor used to indicate what?
The tranquility that African-Americans have experienced
The happiness that African-Americans have experienced
The violence that African Americans have experienced
The solitude that African-Americans have experienced