Vocabulary
What is an avalanche?
When snow, mud, or rocks slide down the side of a mountain.
Who is the main character?
A farmer.
Who is the main character of Mississippi Solo?
Eddy Harris
What is personification?
When you give human qualities to non-human objects.
What is a sonnet?
A 14 line poem.
What does ethereal mean?
Light and airy.
What is a drought?
A dry spell in an area.
What kind of writing is Mississippi Solo?
A memoir.
What is a simile?
A comparison of two unlike things, using like or as.
What is an Italian sonnet?
abbaabbaa for the first eight lines
What does insulate mean?
To prevent the passage of heat.
What is a couplet?
The final pair of lines in a poem.
What are the four examples of the author addressing the reader in this memoir?
you begin, you need, you only get, and you end up.
What is a metaphor?
a comparison of two unlike things, WITHOUT using like or as.
What is a Shakespearean sonnet?
abab cdcd efef gg
What does it mean to be remorseful?
To be very sorry about something.
What kind of sonnet is this poem?
A Shakespearean sonnet.
What happens to the author during his canoe ride?
It starts storming.
What is an allusion?
A reference to a famous place, person, event, or work of literature.
What is a rhyme scheme?
a pattern of end rhymes in a poem.
What is a median?
A concrete slab that divides lanes of traffic.
What does the phrase "the life that's puddled in his veins" suggest in line 3?
The farmer is old and inactive.
What are the four vocabulary words in this story?
Avalanche, Splinter, Etheral, and Insulate.
Name 3 types of figurative language.
Simile, Metaphor, and Personification.
What is a meter?
A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.