A Blessing
The type of animals in A Blessing.
What are horses?
The setting of the poem
What is in the garden, in the author's yard?
Describing two things using 'like' or 'as'.
What is a simile.
The repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of words that are close together.
What is alliteration?
What is a noun?
The setting of the poem.
What is Rochester, Minnesota, in a field.
The meaning of 'pungent'.
What is strong-smelling.
What is repetition?
The attitude of a poem.
What is tone.
The action word in a sentence.
What is the action verb?
The author of A Blessing.
Who is James Wright?
The wild animals in this poem.
What are vixens?
A group of words arranged in a row.
What is a line.
A comparison of two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'.
What is a metaphor?
This connects a noun or pronoun to a word that identifies, renames, or describes it.
What is a linking verb?
The word in the poem that means 'thin'.
What is slender?
The domesticated animals in this poem.
What are cats and dogs?
A group of line in a poem.
What is a staza?
A short work about a moment in time or a single insight.
What is a lyric poem?
The three tenses of verbs.
What are past, present, and future?
The alliteration in the poem.
What is "That if I stepped out of my body I would break into blossom."
The author of the poem.
Who is Linda Hogan?
A word's emotional associations.
What are connotations?
Groups of words that create sound patterns.
What are sound devices?
What is an adverb?