Literary Devices
The fire crackled and hissed.
Onomatopoeia
The author influences the poem's message by including her present self as a narrator
True
"My stomach was a melon split wide inside my skin"
Metaphor
A fire station burns down.
Irony
The author conveys the main message through a continued metaphor.
A drum in the desert, harder and harder to hear
Alliteration
"To be, // or not to be // — that is the question"
Caesura
The most important focus of this poem is the scene of the author as a young girl in the car.
True
I was seven, I lay in the car / watching palm trees swirl a sickening pattern past the glass
Alliteration and Imagery