H is for Hawk
A __________from the pages of an illuminated bestiary.
griffon
Adeline Yen Mah is from this city.
Hong Kong
What is described as "saddening like a hymn" in the poem?
The voices of boys playing
The buzz saw ____________________ in the yard
snarled and rattled
Where is the speaker when the unknown girl is hennaing their hand?
in a bazaar
She came out like a _________ _________: a sort of madwoman in the attack.
Victorian melodrama
What game were Adeline and her friends playing when she was called downstairs?
Monopoly
How does the man feel about the crowds' reaction when he returns home?
Disappointed
And from there those that lifted eyes could count
___________________ one behind the other
Under the sunset far into Vermont.
5 mountain ranges
What is the texture of the girl’s knee described as?
satin peach
‘We’ll check the ring numbers against the __________,'
Article 10s
What type of weather event was predicted for the next day?
typhoon
About this time Town used to ________ __ ____.
swing so gay
How did the boy react when he saw his hand was injured?
He laughed ruefully
What pattern is described as spreading across the speaker’s palm?
a peacock
A sudden thump of feathered shoulders and the box shook as if someone had punched it, hard, from within.
Thump in this sentence is an example of what literary device?
Onomatopeia
What was Adeline’s reaction when her father praised her for winning the writing competition?
She felt overwhelmed with joy
One time he liked a _____________________,
After the matches, carried shoulder-high.
blood smear down his leg
Since he was old enough to know, big boy
Doing a man’s work, _________________—
though a child at heart
What do the dummies in the shop-fronts have?
Western perms
A broken marionette of wings, legs and light-splashed feathers.
Broken marionette is an example of what kind of literary device?
metaphor
What did Adeline dream of becoming before her father intervened?
A writer
That's why; and maybe, too, to please his Meg;
Aye, that was it, ___________________
He asked to join. He didn't have to beg;
to please the giddy jilts
He saw all spoiled. “_________________________—
The doctor, when he comes. Don't let him, sister!”
Don't let him cut my hand off
I’ll lean across a country
with my hands outstretched
longing for _________________
in the neon bazaar.
the unknown girl