Poems To Know

Question 0

Willow and Ginkgo: figurative language

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Eve Merriam uses a lot of similes

Example: “The Willow is sleek as a velvet-nosed calf,

Question 1

Willow and Ginkgo (free verse)

Answer 1

The poem is talking about a Willow and Ginkgo and how they both demonstrate something that is beautiful and something that crude or ugly. But the speakers heart always goes out to the Ginkgo because it thrives and is like a diamond in the rough.

Question 2

Introduction to Poetry (free verse)

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Wanted to teach his students how to read a poem and how to experience it.

Question 3

Literary Device

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None

Question 4

Figurative language

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Metaphors and imagery
Example: Imagery
“I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out,”

Question 5

Macavity: The Mystery Cat

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It’s a couplet and this poem was made to be funny. There is no hidden message within the text as its saying how evil the ginger cat is.

Question 6

Literary Device

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It used personification because it gave the cat human characteristics
Example: “for he is criminal who can defy the law.”

Question 7

Literary device

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There was repetition because it used the same line “ Macavity there is no one like Macavity” there is also rhythm and rhyme

Question 8

Vermin (free verse)

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He has thought in his head but he can’t quite catch it…..

Question 9

Literary devices

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A little bit of rhyme every once in a while.

Question 10

Figurative language

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Metaphor and imagery
Example:
“The mouse is a thought.”

Question 11

The Lesson of the Moth (free verse)

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The moth want to live a life with excitement and die sooner than the cockroach that rather live longer

Question 12

Figurative Language

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Imagery and Comparison

Example:

Question 13

Literacy Device

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Personification:

The cockroach gets to speak to them moth

Question 14

Identity (free verse)

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The speaker says he would rather live a poor life, than be someone spoiled that everyone knows

Question 15

Literary Device

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Repetition

Example:

Question 16

Figurative Language

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Question 17

We Alone (free verse)

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Recurring theme-
Talks about loving nature instead of valuing gold.
Common things should be considered valuable.

Question 18

Literary device

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Repetition

Example:

Question 19

It’s all I have to bring today-recurring theme-(free verse)

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It’s about the speaker appreciating nature and persuading the reader to do so to.

Question 20

Literary device

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Repetition- this and my heart

Imagery- meadows fields

Question 21

Figurative language

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Question 22

Speech to the young, speech to the progress-toward

Free verse

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Question 23

Literary device

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Question 24

Figurative language

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Question 25

Mother to son free verse

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The mother is explaining to her son to take the hard way in life

Question 26

Literary device

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Figurative language: metaphors, stair case is rough easy to rough life Imagery

Question 27

Figurative language

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Metaphors

Question 28

On the grasshopper and cricket (traditional) | Lyric poem

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Talking about the grasshopper and cricket who come out and make their noise in different seasons. Poetry, life, and earth is never dead

Question 29

Literary device

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Rhythm and rhyme

Question 30

Figurative language

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Imagery

Question 31

Ode to solitude (traditional) | Ode-focuses on a strong idea

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A man describing his main ideas of a man's happiness

Question 32

Literary device

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Rhythm, rhyme, and assonance | Example: "happy the man whose wish and care", "bound and ground."

Question 33

Figurative language

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Imagery