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Symbolism
Name that Speaker!
Vocabulary
Poetry
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“Art follows lunch, like dream follows nightmare.”
What is a simile (a comparison using like or as).
100
What body part symbol, in Speak, represents Melinda's inward struggle to communicate with anyone about what happened to her and how she is feeling.
What is the mouth, or lips.
100
Name the speaker, describe when it happens in the story, and explain the significance of the quote, as it relates to the books theme, big idea, and/or the main character's identity: "He's not chopping it down. He's saving it. Those branches were long dead from disease. All plants are like that. By cutting off the damage, you make it possible for the tree to grow again" (Anderson 187)
Who is Melinda's dad. Analysis will vary-- imporant ideas: tree as symbol, Melinda growing, cutting off the past to create hope for future.
100
Define the following word in your own words, and then use it in a new original sentence. "morphing"
Definition: changing into something else Sentence: answers will vary
100
In the poem "The Red Wheelbarrow" what figurative language is the description of the red wheelbarrow glazed with rain water sitting next to the white chickens?
What is imagery- a vivid explanation that connects to sight (one of the five senses). (The colors, seeing the rain water).
200
“Finally, the rake scrapes its metal fingernails along damp brown dirt.”
What is imagery (sound- one of the five senses).
200
Name the speaker, describe when it happens in the story, and explain the significance of the quote, as it relates to the books theme, big idea, and/or the main character's identity: "Let me tell you about it" (Anderson 198).
Who is Melinda. She is answering Mr. Freeman's invitation to talk about her life. Analysis will vary- theme.
200
Define the following word in your own words, and then use it in a new original sentence. "battered"
Definition: beat up, having been hit repeatedly Sentence: Answers will vary
200
In this excerpt from "Miss Rosie" by Lucille Clifton, what figurative language is used? sitting, surrounded by the smell of too old potato peels
What is alliteration (repetition of the first sound of multiple words in a few lines). s s s, p p
300
“Ninth grade is … [a] zit cream commercial before the Feature Film of life.”
What is a metaphor (direct comparison of two unlike things).
300
What does the mirror in Speak symbolize?
What is Melinda's self-concept. She is pushing her knowledge of what's happening to her away. She's in denial (putting the mirror away in the closet, the cracked mirror in her closet, etc.)
300
Name the speaker, describe when it happens in the story, and explain the significance of the quote, as it relates to the books theme, big idea, and/or the main character's identity: "There is blood on the snow. I bit my lip clear through" (Anderson 136).
Speaker: Melinda Describing scene after she is raped. Analysis will vary. Key ideas: color symbolism, symbolism of the snow. Symbol of the lips, starting.
300
Define the following word in your own words, and then use it in a new original sentence. "degrading"
Definition: In a putting down way. To push to a lower status. Sentence: Answers will vary.
300
**************THE DAILY DOUBLE****************** PART 1: In this excerpt from "Grass" by Carl Sandburg, what figurative language is revealed by the description of the grass? Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo, Shovel them under and let me work-- I am the grass... let me work. PART II What does the description of the grass tell us about what the author is saying about war?
PART I: What is personification (giving qualities a PERSON would have to a thing). Grass doesn't "work." PART II: It tells us that war is constant. The "grass" has to keep working to decompose the bodies that are senselessly killed, and humans don't learn to stop fighting all through time.
400
In order to be a complete sentence, not a fragment, a sentence needs what two components?
What are a subject(noun) and an action(verb).
400
What do the seasons represent in Speak?
What is Melinda's changing over time from stage to stage. Fall=death, Winter=Silence, Spring=Hope, Summer=revelation.
400
Name the speaker, describe when it happens in the story, and explain the significance of the quote, as it relates to the books theme, big idea, and/or the main character's identity: "I crouch by the trunk, my fingers stroking the bark, seeking a Braille code, a clue, a message on how to come back to life after my long undersnow dormancy" (Anderson 188).
Who is Melinda. This happens when she rides her bike to the spot she's raped and makes peace with the tree she was raped under. Analysis varies, important ideas: the tree (her tree, her identity) telling her to speak...
400
Define the following word in your own words, and then use it in a new original sentence. "simultaneously"
Definition: at the same time. Sentence: Answers will vary.
400
What literary term, see excerpt below, is used by the author to create deeper meaing in the poem, "Richard Cory"? But still he fluttered pulses when he said, "Good-morning," and he glittered when he walked... And Richard Cory, one calm summer night, Went home and put a bullet through his head.
What is irony (when something that happens is contrary to what can be expected).
500
What is the difference between a proper noun and a pronoun?
A proper noun is a specific person, place or thing, and a pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun, like I, we, you, him, etc.
500
How could Mr. Freeman's name be a symbol, and for what? Why would Anderson choose this name for him?
What is FREE MAN. Freeman. He is a person who leads Melinda to freedom. He pokes and prods and gives her the opportunity to do exactly what she needs to do- express herself. This provided her with freedom from her secret.
500
Name the speaker, describe when it happens in the story, and explain the significance of the quote, as it relates to the books theme, big idea, and/or the main character's identity: "Breathe life into it. Make it bend- trees are flexible, so they don't snap. Scar it, give it a twisted branch- perfect trees don't exist. Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree" (Anderson 153).
Speaker: Mr. Freeman In the book when Melinda is trying to create her tree in the middle of the story. Analysis will vary. Important ideas: Melinda as the tree, she is not perfect...
500
Define the following word in your own words, and then use it in a new original sentence. "inconspicuously"
Definition: in a way that avoids attention, in a not noticable way. Sentence: Answers will vary.
500
We see an example of which figurative language over these MULTIPLE LINES in "George Gray" by Edgar Lee Masters? I have studied many times The marble which was chiseled for me— A boat with a furled sail at rest in a harbor... Yet all the while I hungered for meaning in my life. And now I know that we must lift the sail And catch the winds of destiny Wherever they drive the boat.
What is an extended metaphor. The sailboat is a metaphor for his life, but it is explained in a more detailed and EXTENDED way. This extended explanation gives more information on the thing being described. (His life, in this case, becomes more clear as we hear more about the boat).