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1. Who is the author of "The Gift Outright"?

Robert Frost.

2. Which term most accurately describes the meter of "The Gift Outright"?

Blank verse.

3. Which technique is used in the first line, "The land was ours before we were the land’s"?

Chiasmus.

4. What is the implied antecedent of "our" and "we" in lines 1 and 2?

Americans.

5. To what event does the phrase "more than a hundred years/ Before we were her people" obliquely refer?

The American Revolution.

6. What technique is used in the lines "She was our land more than a hundred years/ Before we were her people" (lines 2-3)?

Personification.

7. What techniques are used in the lines "She was ours/ In Massachusetts, in Virginia" (lines 3-4)?

Synecdoche and asyndeton.

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