Choose the poem that is free verse.There are no handles upon a languageWhereby men take hold of itAnd mark it with signs for its remembrance.It is a river, this language.Love and grief and motherhood,Fame and mirth and scorn—These are all that shall befallAny woman born.

Explain how the poet’s use of language expresses the persona’srelationship with the land.

Choose the poem that uses onomatopoeia.Chariots rumbling; horses neighing;Soldiers shouting martial cries;Drums are sounding; trumpets braying;Seas of glittering spears arise.To the valley and the river small,The cattle, the grass, the bare ash trees,The chickens from the farmsteads, allElm-hidden, and the tributaries

Choose the poem that uses onomatopoeia.Up from the river cameThe low and sullen roarOf lions, with eyes of flame,That haunted its reedy shore,And the neigh of the hippopotamus.Every man has got a hobby,Every poet has some fault,Every sweet contains its bitter,Every fresh thing has its salt.Every mountain has a valley.

Choose the poem that uses alliteration.Now silent, now singing and swaying and swinging,like blossoms that bend to the breezes or showers,Now wantonly winding, they flash, now they falter,and, lingering, languish in radiant choir.So mirrored in thy heart are all desires,Eternal longings, Youth's inheritance,All hopes that token immortality,All griefs whereto immortal grief aspires.

The following text is from Maggie Pogue Johnson’s1910 poem “Poet of Our Race.” In this poem, thespeaker is addressing Paul Laurence Dunbar, a Blackauthor.Thou, with stroke of mighty pen,Hast told of joy and mirth,And read the hearts and souls of menAs cradled from their birth.The language of the flowers,Thou hast read them all,And e’en the little brookResponded to thy call.Which choice best states the main purpose of thetext?A) To praise a certain writer for being especiallyperceptive regarding people and natureB) To establish that a certain writer has readextensively about a variety of topicsC) To call attention to a certain writer’s careful andelaborately detailed writing processD) To recount fond memories of an afternoon spentin nature with a certain writer