Think you’ve got your head wrapped around After great pain, a formal feeling comes? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. The last two lines of each stanza do what?
Rhyme
Use similes
Use personification
Confuse the crap out of us
Q. "The stiff Heart questions 'was it He, that bore,'" (3) has an example of what poetic device?
None. It's prose.
Hyperbole
Personification
Simile
Q. "The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs – " (2) has an example of what?
Personification
Simile
Personification and Simile
Medical jargon
Q. "A Wooden way" (6) has an example of what?
Alliteration
A good way to get a splinter
Assonance
Onomatopoeia
Q. What is the "formal feeling" described by the poem?
Good manners
Emotional numbness
Gas
Physical paralysis