Review for Literary Devices

Excerpt	Literary Device
“America” Claude McKay “Although she feeds me bread of bitterness”	1. she refers to ___________________ so this is an example of: 2. bread of bitterness is an example of:
“The Starry Night” Anne Sexton “Oh, starry starry night! This is how / I want to die”	1. when speaking to a non-human thing or someone who is not there:                                        2. Type of line break:
“Life Doesn’t Frighten Me” Maya Angelou “Mean old Mother Goose” “Ars Poetica” by Claribel Alegria “I … would never change places / with the Venus de Milo; / while she reigns in the Louvre” “Monster” Eminem “the Bruce Lee of loose leaf”
“America” Claude McKay “I love this cultured hell that tests my youth”
“please don’t take my air jordans” reg e. gaines “while laying there dyin’ all he could say was / please don’t take my air jordans away…”	This is an example of _______________ ___ because what the man says who is being robbed and shot isn’t what the reader would expect.
“Incident” Countee Cullen “Of all the things that happened there / That’s all that I remember.” “Grenade” Bruno Mars I'd catch a grenade for you Throw my hand on a blade for you I'd jump in front of a train for you You know I'd do anything for you	These are examples of _________________ because the speakers are exaggerating their feelings.