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Gwendolyn BrooksWe Real Cool
Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1960A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
Literary Device Answers
1. enjambment
2. B. There is a speaker who introduces the youths in the first two lines, and there are the youths themselves who narrate the rest of the poem.
3. C. Alliteration is the repetition of the first letter of two adjacent or near-adjacent words.
4. D. Although Brooks may agree with A, B, and C, her poem passes no judgment.
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