Active and Passive Voice
In this type of voice, the subject receives the action of the verb.
What is "passive voice"?
This word means bent or twisted.
What is crooked?
This conflict serves as the backdrop for Hemingway's "Old Man at the Bridge.
What is the Spanish Civil War?
This notorious bandit confesses to the murder of the samurai in "In a Grove."
Who is Tajomaru?
Sonnet 60 follows this specific type of sonnet structure, characterized by three quatrains and a final couplet.
What is the Shakespearean (or English) sonnet?
Identify the voice: "The committee approved the new policy."
What is "active voice"?
This agricultural tool symbolizes time's destructive power in the sonnet.
What is a scythe?
The story centers around this character, who is concerned about his animals left behind.
Who is the old man?
This character is the wife of the samurai who is found dead in the grove.
Who is Masago?
In the final couplet of Sonnet 60, Shakespeare suggests that this has the power to outlast time's effects.
What is poetry (or verse)?
Convert this passive sentence to active voice: "The ball was thrown by John."
What is "John threw the ball"?
This verb means to dig or excavate.
What is delves?
The narrator's advice to the old man to catch a truck out of danger highlights this theme in the story.
What is "the inevitability of fate" or "the helplessness of individuals in war"?
"In a Grove" is known for presenting multiple viewpoints. This narrative technique, involving various accounts of the same event, is called this.
What is multiple perspectives?
One of the main themes of Sonnet 60 is this inevitable natural process, which is depicted as both relentless and impartial.
What is aging?
Change this active sentence to passive voice: "The cat chased the mouse."
What is "The mouse was chased by the cat"?
These lines refer to wrinkles.
What are parallels?
The old man's concern for these animals symbolizes his attachment to his home and the life he left behind.
What are the cat, the goats, and the pigeons?
A central theme of "In a Grove" explores the subjective nature of this, highlighting how it can be influenced by personal bias and perspective.
What is truth?
Sonnet 60 uses this literary device when referring to time as something that can "transfix the flourish set on youth."
What is personification?
In passive voice constructions, the doer of the action is often introduced by this preposition.
What is "by"?
In the line "Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore," this term is used to symbolize the relentless passage of time.
What are waves?
This symbolizes the old man's despair and lack of future.
What is "the bridge"?
In "In a Grove," the samurai's sword and the wife's dagger symbolize these two conflicting concepts.
What are honor and betrayal?
Sonnet 60 deals with the struggle between the effects of time and the poet's attempt to achieve this for his subject.
What is immortality?