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Turtle vs. Migrant Workers
Why Did the Turtle Cross the Road?
100
In "Root Cellar" by Roethke, the words "sleep" and "cellar" (line 1) are examples of this type of sound device.
What is alliteration?
100
"The hill reared up ahead of him" is an example of this literary element. It is used for this reason.
What is personification? To convey how intimidating the embankment was? To show the hostility of the environment?
100
Dank means this.
What is damp and musty?
100
The turtle's shell can be compared to this for the migrant workers.
What is car? (living out of car)
100
This is the “life” that waits to wake up and grow in many places in “The Turtle.”
What are the seeds waiting to be spread all over?
200
In Roethke's poem, "crates" and "snakes" at the end of lines 4 & 5 don't rhyme exactly... They are known as this type of rhyme.
What is forced/near/approximate/slant rhyme?
200
This word from the phrase "leaf-mold, manure, lime, piled against slippery planks" is a part of the pattern of animal imagery in the poem "Root Cellar."
What is manure?
200
Lolling means this.
What is hang loosely; droop?
200
The turtle is out of place on the fast-paced highway just like the migrant workers are left behind because of ________.
What is industrialization or changing economy or eliminated jobs or losing housing?
200
This theme dominates the story of the turtle in John Steinbeck's the Grapes of Wrath.
What is the struggle to survive?
300
Consonance occurs in the following phrase: "long yellow evil necks," due to the repetition of this sound.
What is the letter L?
300
This figurative comparison is present in the following quote: "The back legs went to work, straining like elephant legs, and the shell tipped to an angle so that the front legs could not reach the level cement plain." These two things are being compared and for this reason.
What is simile? What are the turtle's legs being compared to an elephant's legs to convey how intense the turtle's efforts were?
300
Rank means this.
What is having an offensive or foul smell? (Nasty/unpleasant)
300
This part provides the biggest contrast in the Great Depression photo. Why?
What is the baby because he/she is supposed to be innocent and fragile yet he/she is being exposed to harsh conditions in a cruel world?
300
The sedan driver and truck driver in "The Turtle" represent these.
What are good and evil? Challenges and Advantages? People willing to help and people wanting to hurt? Kind Acts and Malicious Treatment?
400
Assonance occurs in the following phrase: "hung down long yellow evil necks." The ____ sound is repeated.
What is the short E?
400
"Bulbs broke out of boxes" is this device of comparison. It is comparing these two things in "Root Cellar."
What is metaphor? Bulbs to animals that are hunting?
400
Obscenely means this.
What is offensively, rudely, or shockingly?
400
The title of the photograph suggests...
What is the never-ending obstacles that migrant families faced during the Great Depression? (Hint: Note the lack of conjunction... Asyndeton makes the list seem endless.)
400
After nearly hitting the turtle, the sedan driver continues on the road, "but more slowly." This piece of evidence demonstrates the lady's ____________.
What is regret/caution/awareness after the fact/respect for life?
500
The author, Theodore Roethke, uses multiple sound devices in his poem "Root Cellar" for this reason.
What is to convey a sense of life spilling out of the darkness as the plants strive to locate light and achieve growth?
500
"For a long moment the turtle lay still, and then the neck crept out and the old humorous frowning eyes looked about and the legs and tail came out." In the quote, "humorous frowning" is an example of what literary device? Why is it used?
What is oxymoron? Bittersweet moment b/c the turtle has overcome one obstacle (the ant) but still has a long journey ahead of him.
500
Chinks are these.
What are cracks, clefts, or fissures?
500
The soft skin inside the shell of the turtle could be representative of this characteristic of the migrants.
What are weaknesses/emotions that they hide in order to survive and persevere? The shell is the hard life that has hardened them to most people and situations?
500
The three seeds stuck in the ground and covered by dirt with the turtle's shell represent _______________.
What is new life/new beginning?