"Exile"
The children are told they are going to this place instead of fleeing the country.
The beach
The speaker is alone in his room mourning this loss.
Lenore
The name of the school that Josh and JB attend.
Reggie Lewis Middle School
When a poet hints at something without directly saying it.
Inference
The children’s excitement about travel creates this type of irony because readers know the truth.
The raven symbolizes this idea throughout the poem.
Death or grief
Chuck Bell’s health crisis forces Josh to rethink what is most important in life, especially this.
Family over basketball/winning
The arrangement of stanzas, line breaks, and spacing that contributes to meaning.
Poetic Form
The speaker describes memories from her childhood, making the poem this type of writing.
Narrative Poem
Giving the raven the human-like ability to speak is this literary device.
Personification
What restaurant do Josh and J.B. visit with their dad often?
Krispy Kreme
The underlying message about human experience revealed through imagery and conflict.
Theme
The family faces an external conflict because they cannot safely remain in this country.
Dominican Republic
The poem suggests that the narrator’s greatest enemy is actually this.
Mind/Grief
Alexis wears these colored Reebok sneakers.
Pink
When a physical object represents an abstract idea.
Symbolism
What do water and swimming symbolize in the poem Exile?
Escape and Uncertainty
What does the raven’s shadow at the end of The Raven symbolize?
Grief becoming permanent
What colleges do Josh and JB want to attend?
Josh wishes to attend Duke.
JB wishes to attend UNC.
The emotional progression a poem follows from beginning to end.
Narrative Arc