ENG TEST TOMORROW
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cjprincipato on February 29, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 "Forgotten Language" | -adults have forgotten how to communicate with Nature because their lives are too busy - sad reality of being an adult |
| "Southern Mansion" | -contrast between the music of the plantation and the clanging of the chains of the slaves in the cotton fields ***The sound of music represents the gentility of the Southern plantation life before the Civil War. |
| "Taught Me Purple" | - her mother could not teach her daughter PRIDE because she did not have any. The mother's life was very poor and drab. She did teach her daughter to seek a better life. Sun= gold and Purple= royalty ( symbols) |
| Limerick | poem to show humor |
| Haiku | 17 syllables |
| Concrete poem | the shape of the subject e.g. Xmas tree ( "400 Meter Free Style" is a concrete poem - pp. 591-592). |
| "Southbound on the Freeway" | an alien from outer space |
| " Paul Revere's Ride" | heroic poem about Paul Revere - patriotism - theme British come by ship -2 lanterns in window of old North Church |
| "Runagate Runagate" | - Harriet Tubman - woman of great emotional strength - Underground Railroad - slaves cannot turn back or Harriet Tubman would shoot them |
| "Barbara Frietchie" | - puts the flag in her window and Stonewall Jackson's men shoot at it - Stonewall gets ashamed of what he has let happen and tells his men not to shoot at the flag again - Barbara Frietchie is a brave and strong woman of 90 years |
| "O Captain! My Captain!" | - poem = extended metaphor for Abraham Lincoln who has saved the country - the captain has saved the ship and brought it into shore just as Abraham Lincoln has saved the country - abolishing slavery |
| "The Road Not Taken" | - 2 paths diverged in a yellow wood; the speaker has to choose which path to take. He chooses the path less traveled by and that has made all the difference in his life. The ROAD is a METAPHOR for ways of life. ( the choices we make in life) |
| NOTE THE RHYME SCHEME IN THE POEM - "The Road Not Taken" | NOTE THE RHYME SCHEME IN THE POEM - "The Road Not Taken" |
| "Four Little Foxes" | - 4 little foxes lost their mother in a trap; the speaker of the poem is talking to March or Spring and tells either one to speak softly and go lightly. The little foxes are having a difficult time surviving. |
| "Harlem Night Song" | - poem about boy and his girlfriend walking in Harlem - moon, blue sky, stars - love rises above the gritty streets of Harlem |
| "The Term" | - artificial objects like a piece of paper will live if a car passes over it, but a man in the same situation would die - theme: life is very fragile |
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