Figurative Language
Comparison using "like" or "as"
Simile
A grouped set of lines within a poem often separated by blank spaces
Stanza
Main message or central idea
Theme
How does the speaker describe the father's hands?
Cracked, and aching
Summer camp
Comparing two unlike things by stating one is the other
Metaphor
Descriptive language to create mental pictures
Imagery
The last piece of cake was calling my name
Personification
What specific task does the father perform for the son?
Polishing the author's shoes
Name at least one thing the author mentions the mother gave/provided for him.
Milk, life, education, clothes, housing
Extreme Exaggeration
Hyperbole
Words that describe sounds
Onomatopoeia
"Buzz" "Splash" "Bang"
Onomatopoeia
What phrase does the speaker use to describe the tension or mood in the house?
"The chronic angers of that house?
According to the poem, the young boy believed that as long as he had the lanyard, he and his mother were what?
Even
Gives human qualities to inanimate objects
Personification
Tone
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
Alliteration
What word describes the father's "offices", meaning stern or without comfort?
Austere
Is the poem actually about a lanyard? If not, what is the lanyard" a metaphor for?
Small gesture we give to people who have given us everything. Answers may vary
Contradiction between expectation and reality
Irony
The repetition of the same sounds at the beginning of words in a sentence.
Alliteration
A traffic cop gets caught speeding
Irony
Why is the word "Sundays" plural in the title?
To show the father's labor was a constant, repetitive sacrifice?
What did the author realize at the end of the poem?
That you can never repay a mother