Figurative Language
The lights on the stage unrelenting
as the desert sun
What is Simile?
fully developed or fully grown
not showing less strength
What is unrelenting
True or false: The theme of I am Offering this Poem is that the speaker believes poetry cannot be a source of love and comfort.
What is false?
The speaker believes poetry can be a source of love and comfort.
Who is the poet of "I Am Offering This Poem?"
What is Jimmy Santiago Baca?
So it is a pot full of yellow corn
What is imagery?
Guidance of someone or something
What is direction?
love for one's country
What is patriotism
The following passage from “A Voice” is written in the ______ tense, from a _____ point of view.
You told me only once about the time you went
to the state capitol, your family proud as if
you’d been named governor. But when you looked
around, the only Mexican in the auditorium,
What is past and second (2nd)?
Who is the poet of A Voice?
What is Pat Mora?
In dense trees, come knocking.
What is personification
Closely compacted or thick
What is dense?
A person who is allowed to ask questions in a court of law
What is judge?
Read stanza 9-10
“I can’t,” you whispered.
“I can’t.” Yet you did. Not that day but years later.
You taught the four of us to speak up.
This is America, Mom. The undo-able is done
in the next generation. Your breath moves
through the family like the wind
moves through the trees.
True or false, the summary of the stanza is the mother did for her children what she was not able to do for herself.
What is true?
What type of figurative language is being used in She Unnames Them?
desire to smell one another’s smells, feel or rub or caress
What is imagery?
Your father, the judge without the courtroom
What is metaphor?
traditional dwelling and ceremonial structure of the Navajo tribes
Group of people born and living during the same time
What is generation?
Which line best supports the summary for stanza 9-10 that the mother did for her children what she was not able to do for herself.
A. “Your breath moves / through the family like the wind / moves through the trees.”
B. “‘I can’t,” you whispered. / “I can’t.’”
C. “This is America, Mom. The undo-able is done / in the next generation.”
D. “‘I can’t.” Yet you did. Not that day but years later. / You taught the four of us to speak up.”
What is D?
In Ursula LeGuin "She Unnames Them", the story was being told from which character point of view?
If you were lost, needing direction,
in the wilderness life becomes when mature...
What is personification?
In exactly the same words; word for word
What is verbatim?
A political system where people select their government by voting.
What is democracy?
From A Voice, which line(s) best explains where the mother might have inherited her personality from?
A. “Your breath moves / through the family like the wind/ moves through the trees.”
B. “You never dared to race past him, / to say, “Please move,” in the language / you learned effortlessly, as you learned to run, / the language forbidden at home, though your mother / said you learned it to fight with the neighbors.”
C. “The family story says your voice is the voice / of an aunt in Mexico, spunky as a peacock.”
D. “In your house that smelled like / rose powder, you spoke Spanish formal / as your father, the judge without a courtroom / in the country he floated to in the dark / on a flatbed truck.”
What is C?
True or false: The significance of the title I Am Offering This Poem is to demonstrates the speaker only has the poem to offer as a sign of his love.
What is true?