Compare two different forms of lyric poetry from this unit, and show how the form of each helps to express the speaker's thoughts and feelings.

• Review the different forms of lyric poetry from this unit-sonnet, haiku, and free verse. Choose two poems, each with a different structure, as the basis for your comparison.
• Analyze each poem, explaining its structure and form.
• Show how each poem's structure aids the speaker in conveying important thoughts and feelings. Provide specific examples from each poem.
• Compare and contrast the structures of the two poems, explaining how the patterns of rhythm or rhyme affect the overall mood and feeling each expresses.
• Finally, evaluate the two poems, explaining which poem, in your opinion, better uses its structure to convey the speaker's ideas. Use text evidence to support your judgments.

Does "The Seven Ages of Man" in any way change your perspective on the stages of life and the "roles" people play? Explain your response.

(a) Use letters to identify the rhyme scheme in "Fire and Ice."

(b) In what way does the shift in rhyme scheme midway through the poem help signal a turning point in the poem's message?

Read the selection. Then, answer the question. (1) Tom stared in disbelief at the bottle. (2) He remembered the day six months ago. (3) It was his birthday, and the last day before his grandfather moved to Florida. (4) It had been his grandfather's idea. (5) They had written a note and sealed it in the bottle, and Tom had thrown it into the surf. (6) "The world is small," his grandfather had said with a wink, "your bottle will be back." (7) Tom had wanted to hear from someone far away, but as weeks passed he gave up hope. (7) Like his grandfather, the bottle seemed to be gone forever. (8) Tom was wrong. (9) Today's mail had brought a package, and inside was the bottle. (10) It had been found by strangers an ocean away. (11) Tom grinned as he noticed a second piece of mail-a postcard from his grandfather.

In sentence 4, Tom's grandfather had an idea to-

A. celebrate Tom's birthday with a trip to the beach.

B. put a note in a bottle and throw it in the sea.

C. send the bottle back to the sender.

D. mail the bottle to Tom as a souvenir.

In his sonnet, Shakespeare presents an idea or a question in the first quatrain (four lines), explores the idea in the next two quatrains, and reaches a conclusion in the final couplet. Use a chart like the one shown to analyze the content of "Sonnet 30. "

(a) Identify the paradox in "Much Madness is divinest Sense-."

(b) Explain why it is a paradox.

Deliver a multimedia presentation in which you explain how the theme expressed in a poem from this unit reflects the poet's life experiences.

• To gather materials for your presentation, conduct research on the poet's life and literary influences. Find texts, images, and, if possible, audio or video clips that you can use in your presentation.
• Identify the poet and poem you will discuss. State the poem's theme and cite details that support your interpretation.
• Explain how the theme expressed in this poem relates to aspects of the poet's life or work. Use evidence from your research and from the poem to support your ideas.
• If possible, use digital media such as digital images, audio, or even video to provide evidence and to add interest to your presentation.
• End with a conclusion that supports the information you presented.

(a) How does the news coverage of Katrina affect the writer's thoughts and actions before, during, and after the storm?

(b) How does reading this account change your own understanding of hurricanes?

(a) Which of these poems do you think makes the most effective use of sound devices?

(b) Discuss your choice with a small group and decide on a single response.

Craft and Structure Identify and explain the paradox in "Sonnet on Love XIII."

(a) In "The War Against the Trees," who or what is at war with the trees?

(b)What does the image of war suggest about the speaker's feelings toward the trees and what is happening to them? Explain how the poem reveals this.

Vocabulary analogies show the relationships between pairs of words. Use a word from the Poetry Collection list that creates a word pair matching the relationship between the first two given words.

rehearsal : performance :: ______ : championship

Vocabulary analogies show the relationships between pairs of words. Use a word from the vocabulary list to make a word pair that matches the relationship between the first two given words.

empty : full :::______ : fruitful

(a) What does the speaker's father do throughout the storm in "Twister Hits Houston"?

(b) Make a Judgment: Is his behavior appropriate for the situation? Explain your answer.