If you have induced someone to help you with a boring task, you are good at: A) persuading others; B) staying on schedule; C) working alone.

Analyze the series of vivid images of nighttime by the sea in the first stanza. To which senses do these images appeal? How do these images relate to the meaning of the poem? Why do you think Arnold highlights the auditory images, such as “Listen!” in line 9?

What causes the attraction that Elena feels to Eugene? How does he react?

What do the consonance and caesura in lines 9–14 add to the imagery in those lines? How does that imagery help create the mood of sadness with which the stanza ends?

The_______ of the sound from those speakers is amazing. Fill-in the blank with one of these words: fiduciary, perfidy, fidelity, infidel, confidant, or affidavit.

Who is met at the Medicine Wheel by Momaday and Chuck?

“London” takes the form of a walking tour through London. How does Blake use visual and auditory imagery to both convey the atmosphere in the streets and create a sense of foreboding?

A metaphor compares two or more different things by stating or implying that one thing actually is another. A simile emphasizes a specific feature of something by comparing it to a separate object that is characteristic of that feature. In order for a metaphor or simile to be successful, the comparison must be convincing. When Sandra Cisneros writes, "I've been waiting patient as a spider all these years," the reader understands the simile because persistence is a quality attributed to spiders.

Identify two or three metaphors or similes in "I Am Offering This Poem." How does the use of these devices enhance the poem?

Momaday gives a description of what journey?

What is your interpretation of “mind-forged manacles” (l. 8)? How might that phrase comment on the over-industrialized world of London in the eighteenth century?

For what reason does seeing animals, at those particular points of his journey, have meaning to Momaday?

According to Axelrod, what relationship exists between fear and truth? Explain.

What was Sister Rita's motivation for forbidding Frank to talk to Patricia? Was Sister Rita justified?

How effective is McCourt's writing in the "innocent voice of an unprotected child" at relating his childhood events and his adult feelings about them?