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Lyrics and Poetry: The Birmingham Church Bombing

Question 10 • ARC English 10 Semester 2 CR/Summer

Read the stanza below from the poem “Birmingham Sunday” by Richard Fariña and answer the question that follows. The clouds they were grey and the autumn winds blew,And Denise McNair brought the number to two.The falcon of death was a creature they knew,And the choirs kept singing of Freedom, Which type of figurative language does the bolded part of the stanza use?

Answer
A
simile
B
personification
C
imagery
D
metaphor

Explanation

“The falcon of death” is a metaphor: it describes death as a falcon without using “like” or “as.” The phrase gives death the image of a hunting bird, but it does not literally mean death is a falcon. The correct choice is metaphor.

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