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The White Man's Burden Quizzes

Think you’ve got your head wrapped around The White Man's Burden? Put your knowledge to the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. The even-numbered lines of the poem are written in what metrical feet?


Iambs
Trochees
Amphibrachs
Webbed
Q. The poem's pattern of end rhymes is called what?


Rhyme Plan
Rhyme Scheme
Rhythm
Rhymenocerous
Q. "Fill full the mouth of Famine" give us an example of what poetic technique?


assonance
consonance
alliteration
fancy-shmancy-ness
Q. "Sloth and heathen" give us an example of what poetic technique?


assonance
consonance
alliteration
awful nicknames
Q. The words "bind" and "exile" give us an example of what poetic technique?


assonance
consonance
alliteration
procrastination