Secret Lost in the Water
The object that symbolizes the connection between narrator and father.
The alder branch.
This woman hears that her husband is dead.
Who is Mrs. Mallard?
This boy tries to steal a purse.
Who is Roger?
The poem says the first green is like this color.
What is gold?
The poet says she rises like this in the first stanza.
What is dust?
The narrators father can find this with a branch.
A spring.
She has this health problem.
What is a heart condition?
Mrs. Jones takes Roger to this place.
What is her home?
The poem says good things do not do this.
What is stay (or last)?
This short line is repeated many times.
What is "I rise"?
The farmer wants his children to inherit this but they do not want it.
What is his farm?
She is sad at first, but then feels this emotion.
What is free (or happy)?
She gives Roger this instead of calling the police.
What is kindness (or a meal)?
This season is short and beautiful.
What is spring?
The poem shows the speaker feels this way.
What is strong (or proud)?
A skill that the narrator has that his father does not.
What is spelling or writing.
A symbol of freedom.
The things that Mrs. Jones has done in her past.
What are crimes? (Stealing etc.)
The poem says this garden was lost.
What is Eden?
The poem is about this big idea.
What is hope (or strength)?
The theme of the story.
What is generational wisdom?
The irony at the end of the story.
What is thinking that she dies from "the joy that kills?"
The feeling that is shown to Roger by Mrs. Jones.
What is empathy?
The rhyme scheme of this poem.
What is AABB.
The poet uses these to compare feelings and things.
What are metaphors?