A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe

What do the lost grains of sand represent?

The grasp on reality that the speaker loses in the poem. (the shifting wavers also represent this)

What literary device is used in the line, “yet if hope has flown away,”?

Personification

What literary device is used in the following lines, “You are not wrong, who deem that my days have been a dream,”?

alliteration

What literary device is used in the following lines, “take this kiss,","who deem / that all my days have been a dream,” and “in a night, or in a day/ in a vision or in none”?

consonance

Where is the speaker in the last stanza?

The beach

What is happening at the beginning of the poem?

The speaker is kissing a loved one on the brow.

What literary devices are used in the poem?

Symbolism, metaphor, personification, and hyperbole