25 pages 50 minutes read

Margaret Walker

Love Song for Alex, 1979

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1989

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Literary Device Answers

1. C. The tone of the poem is very affectionate, established in the first line with the use of a private “pet” name.

2. C. The repetition of the initial consonant sounds in “waters of the world” is alliterative.

3. B. The repetition of the long e sound in “creeping” and “seaweed” is assonance.

4. The lines with the purest iambic pentameter are Line 2 and Line 14.

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