Poetry Notes
The tone of paragraph 1 is...
What is melancholy/sad?
Clues: (cold yellow houses, silver trees, lonely child)
Based upon our notes we can determine that the conflict of the story is...
What is the son is trying to get closure on an absent father?
(Any answer dealing with the son holding a grudge against a missing father is acceptable.)
The main argument of the CFA text was...
Nations should return the artifacts they receive unlawfully.
The speaker of the poem is...
Who is the father of the artist?
The tone of paragraph 3 is...
What is uncertainty?
(...you never know why, you never know force that drives you wild...)
The father from the story views his hometown as a place with limited opportunities. What line from the story suggests this?
A. "Finally, though, I got into import/export and everything took off."
B. "Can you imagine, this boy from Ashland having dinner in the same room with a-"
What is "B"?
The father is speaking about having the opportunity to meet a prime minister, something he would not have been afforded where he was from.
The phrase "ethically essential" suggests...
A) countries have a moral obligation to return items.
B) Countries with foreign artifacts have behaved immorally.
What is A?
When you are ethical that means that you do the right thing and essential means it is necessary, therefore it is necessary to do the right thing.
The speaker of the poem interacts differently with his child than the father in the story in that he...
What is spends time developing a relationship and bond?
(Also acceptable: encouraging, protective, comforting, concerned)
The tone of paragraph 4 is...
What is concern?
(I tell you this with love and pride and sorrow)
The son says to the father, "I'd say I missed you, if I knew what missing was." What does this suggest about the somes feelings?
A. He is excited to be reunited with his dad.
B. He is bitter about the distance his dad created between the two.
What is B?
(The son is being sarcastic towards his father and a bit disrespectful with some things that he says.)
The statement, "Some would argue that, after so many years, the Parthenon has essentially become an aspect of British culture, since its display at the museum is so renowned," is an example of a:
A) Rebuttal
B) Counterargument
What is B?
(The statement, "some would argue" let's us know that the author is going in a different direction than their original stance.)
The term "inner turmoil" means...
A) You are an emotional person
B) You are dealing with a conflict with self
Turmoil suggests there is an issue that you are struggling to resolve.
The thing stanza 3 shows is...
What is the daughter shows concern about her abilities and the dad is trying to comfort her?
The son decides to forgive his father, because this happens right before he makes this decision...
A. The father asks a question the son has difficulty answering
B. The father dies
What is A?
(The father asks the son what makes a man great and the son thinks for a long time about the answer to this question.)
What is provide examples of how countries have returned artifacts to their country of origin?
When answering compare and contrast stories on two or more stories, the reader should:
A) Eliminate answer choices where one part is incorrect.
B) Pick the answer choice where at least one part is correct.
What is A?
Remember BOTH parts of the answer choice needs to be correct for the story it is answering
The line, "when the sky is a surreal sea in which you drown..." means,
A. a child sees the sky as a magical ocean full of mysterious creatures
B. artists experience a sea of wild and unpredictable emotions
C. there is a danger that artists may get lost in their own creations
What is "C"?
This line is from stanza 3 when the dad is trying to explain to the daughter how we can not understand the things that ignite our passions.
An example of irony from the story is when...
A. The dad tells the son the two-headed lady had a sister.
B. The son acknowledges that the one thing his father spent his life pursuing was the thing he left behind.
What is A AND B?
Both are ironic because irony is when something is revealed that is unexpected.
A) The son did not know there was a sister and we did not expect the dad to make a comeback.
B) The dad went on a quest to become a great man when being a father is one of the greatest accomplishments a man can undertake.
Paragraph 5 focuses on...
What is the acceptance of returning artifacts to their countries of origin?
The narrator of the story is...
A) the son
B) the father
What is A?
The story is being told from the son's perspective, therefore, we see how he felt in dealing with a missing father.