Structure
The poem contains this many couplets.
12 couplets
This lin is an example of a metaphor.
What is ”The border is not a scar. Instead, it is something we keep picking at.”?
The border in the poem centers around which two countries.
What is Mexico and the United States?
The speaker grew up on the ______.
U.S-Mexico border
T/F: the poem “Crossing” is a more positive view of the border than the poem “Border Boy”
What is false?
This is the point of view the poem is written in.
What is first person?
One example of imagery used in the poem.
What is ”Fit neatly behind my eyes and between my ears”?
What is “I have looked underneath the skirts”?
What is “It is a stranger even to itself”?
This is why it is difficult to cross the U.S-Mexico border
What is strict immigration laws and lack of resources
This is how the speaker describes the physical apperence of the border in memory.
What is barbed wires and could “fit behind my eyes and between my ears”
The tone used in “Border Boy” vs. “Crossing”
What is more calm and reflective tone?
The form of “Border Boy is ____”
Free verse form
What is personification?
These are common reasons people cross the U.S-Mexico border.
What is to find better work or a better life?
These terms are used to describe the border.
”Border“, ”Frontera”, “la línea”, “the line”, and “the fence”
This is the speakers view of the border in “Crossing”.
What is violent, alienated, and traumatic?
Free verse is…
What is a type of poetry that doesn’t use regular rhyme or rhythm?
This word is repeated multiple times in the poem
What is “scar”?
T/F: The border is easier to cross today than it was before.
What is false?
In “Border Boy,” Ríos critiques how people talk about the border today, saying the word lacks this.
What is its childhood or history?
T/F: Both poems are made up of couplets.
What is true?
The lack of traditional punctuation at the end of each line is called ____.
What is Enjambment?
The poetic device that the line “The border I knew was something with a history. But this thing now, it is a stranger even to itself” uses.
What is juxtaposition?
This is how the speaker sees the border because he grew up on it. Hint: two examples of personification
What is a scar, or an old friend?
This poem crosses the border multiple times.