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Skills Lesson: Structure

Question 3 • VA-English 10 CR

Read the selection below from the poem “The King Sends Three Cats to Guinevere” by Marjorie Allen Seiffert and answer the question that follows. I send you three grey cats with gifts—(For uniformity of metaphor,Since Bacchus, Satan, and the HangmanAre not contemporaneous in my mythology)I send you three grey cats with gifts,Queen Guinevere,To warn you, sleekly, silentlyTo pay the forfeit. Source: Seiffert, Marjorie Allen. “The King Sends Three Cats to Guinevere.” BlackCatPoems.com. Black Cat Poems, n.d. Web. 7 July 2011. Which poetic device does the speaker use in the line, “Since Bacchus, Satan, and the Hangman”?

Answer
A
allusion
B
hyperbole
C
simile
D
metonymy
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