Speaker & Voice
What is the speaker in a poem?
The voice telling the poem.
What is imagery?
Words that help you picture or sense something.
What is rhyme?
Words that end with the same sound.
What is personification?
Giving human traits to something not human.
What is tone?
The speaker’s attitude.
True or False: The speaker is always the poet.
False
Give one example of imagery from the poem.
“dark days of autumn rain.”;
“bare, the withered tree.”
What is the rhyme pattern in the first five lines?
ABAAB.
Give one example of personification from the poem.
“My Sorrow… thinks.”;
“She walks the sodden pasture lane.”
Give another tone word from the poem.
Desolate; heavy; faded
Who is the speaker in “My November Guest”?
A person talking about November;
narrator of the poem.
Which sense is used in “clinging mist”?
Touch; feeling
What is a stanza?
A group of lines in a poem.
What is a simile?
A comparison using “like” or “as.”
What is theme?
The main idea or message.
Who does “she” represent in the poem?
Sorrow (sadness)
Why do poets use imagery?
To make the poem more vivid; to paint a picture
What repeated phrase appears in the poem?
“She’s glad.”
What does Sorrow symbolize?
Sadness.
What is the theme of “My November Guest”?
Even sad times can be beautiful.
Why does the speaker feel “vexed”?
Because Sorrow thinks he doesn’t see beauty;
she disagrees with him.
Find one image that shows November trees.
“bare, the withered tree.”;
“desolate, deserted trees.”
Why do poets use rhyme?
To make the poem sound smooth; to give rhythm
What is a metaphor?
A comparison of two unlike ideas, topics, things.
What feeling does the poem give you overall?
Calm and sad. (Other acceptable answers: peaceful, gloomy, quiet.)