Vocabulary
This word means someone who is fake.
What is impostor?
Define and give an example of a hyperbole.
Extreme exaggeration; example.
This is who the narrator of "If" is speaking to and advising.
What is his son?
These are the features of the natural scene in "Washed in Silver"?
What are the seas and the hills?
This is how all of the poems in Poetry Collection 2 are similar ("Washed in Silver," "The Cremation of Sam McGee" and "Winter").
What is they all convey how nature can affect people in various ways (moonlight, harsh climate and seasons).
This word's synonym is horror or disgust.
What is grisly?
Define narrative poem.
What is a poem that tells a story?
The squirrel and the mountain had a ________.
What is a quarrel?
This is the main metaphor in "Washed in Silver."
What is the moon is silver?
This line from "If" conveys the importance of being a risk-taker and being comfortable with losing if you take a big risk.
What is "If you can make a heap of all your winnings, and risk it in one turn of pitch and toss...and lose, and start again at your beginnings and never breathe a word about your loss."
This word implies brightness and appeals to the sense of sight; it is used in the poem "Washed in Silver."
What is radiance?
__________ is how an author feels about his subject or characters and ______ is how a text makes the reader feel.
What is tone and mood?
This metaphor explains that the speaker feels that her individuality will open her up to success in the world.
What is the universe key in "Thumbprint?"
This is the theme of "Washed in Silver"?
What is the moonlight makes the natural scene special/magnificent?
All of the poems are lyric poems except.
What is "The Cremation of Sam McGee"?
This word means to dig.
What is burrow?
Describe the difference between a simile and a metaphor and give an example of each from the poems we've read.
What is a simile uses like or as to make comparisons and a metaphor makes a direct comparison? (example)
These are the examples of personification in "If" and this is how they are personified.
Triumph, Disaster as people you meet/impostors and Will as speaking to you.
The beginning and middle of "The Cremation of Sam McGee" have a __________ mood, while the ending is meant to be __________.
What is mysterious and funny/humorous?
These are two examples of alliteration in the poems we've studied.
What is "I march magnificently by," and "whorls, whirls, wheels"?
It is important to be ________ ; your individuality will help you in life. This word is a common theme amongst the three poems from Poetry Collection 1 ("Fable", "If" and "Thumbprint").
What is unique?
Give two examples of alliteration from the poems we've read and define the term.
What is a repetition of consonant sounds? (example)
These are three metaphors in "Thumbprint."
What is a book (life story), signature, and key to the universe.
This is how the stanzas in "Winter" are divided to show that humans and animals are similar in their preparation for winter.
What is stanza one: prepare to get warmth, stanza two: prepare to gain strength and stanza three: prepare for survival (food/books).
These elements are what make the poem "Fable" a fable.
What is animal characters that speak, it is short and it conveys a moral.