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They begin beating it with THIS to find out what it really means.
What is a hose?
This metapoem teaches us HOW we should read poetry.
What is "Introduction to Poetry"?
"Cars slushed by on the street outside." This type of imagery.
Auditory (or aural) imagery.
He is a wise seer.
Who is Tiresias?
In the poem "Insensibility," the front line _________
a) jitters
b) withers
c) falters
b) withers
In THIS, they knocked down a flowerpot that hung behind the stove. Do you mean a melee?
What is a scuffle?
This story harkens back to (or alludes to) the famous story of King Solomon.
What is "Little Things"?
She felt her fingers being forced open.
What is tactile imagery?
She wants to die for something she didn't do.
Who is Ismene?
They are NOT discussed in the poem:
a) poets
b) flowers
c) politicians
d) old men
c) politicians
Oedipus called Tiresias this kind of fraud.
What is a "pious" fraud?
Losing is an art, according to this poem. Something that Mr. Leonard's team did a lot of this season.
What is "One Art"?
Because of this, the young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself...
What is internal conflict?
"She would have it, this baby."
Who is the woman?
According to the poem, war is all of the following EXCEPT
a) decimating
b) random
c) cursed
d) dispiriting
c) cursed
"No? Believe me, the stiffest _________ wills fall the hardest." Nice alliteration, if you ask me.
What is "stubborn"?
"and now I am dry bones and my face a stony skull staring in _______________ at the sun."
what is "yellow surprise"?
"When the last dingdong of doom has clanged and faded..." These devices.
What are onomatopoeia and alliteration?
He was red-faced and screaming.
Who is the baby?
The overall tone of the poem is:
Sarcastic
Man will not merely endure, he will __________.
What is "prevail"?
This poem by Richard Wright can be interpreted as a secret between the poet and the world.
What is "Between the World and Me"?
I lost two cities, lovely ones.
What is hyperbole?
Faulkner's speech addresses them directly. Wasn't he a writer?
Who is "the poet"?
The poem's repetition of "happy" echoes Christ's sermon on the mount, also called this.
The beatitudes.