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Gwendolyn Brooks

We Real Cool

Gwendolyn BrooksFiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1960

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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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