Use context clues to help you determine the meaning of each boldfaced word.
After a long time at sea, sailors returning home may find their legs shaky when they first walk on terra firms.

Use context clues to help you determine the meaning of each boldfaced word.
Lugubrious ales such as The Rime of the Ancient Mariner appeal to readers despite their mournful tone.

Write sentences that use the given chapter vocabulary words, leaving blanks where the vocabulary words would go. Exchange your sentences with another student, and fill in the blanks in each other's sentences.

rebate

A ballad may be either a folk ballad or a literary ballad. A folk ballad usually tells of an exciting or dramatic event. Folk ballads have no known author and were passed along orally-usually as songs-from generation to generation before being written down. In contrast, a literary ballad is written in imitation of a folk ballad and has at least one known author. Most ballads tell their stories primarily through characters' action and dialogue.

What is the main action taking place in "Sweet Betsy from Pike"? How does the main action help define it as a ballad?

What "gifts" (line 86) and "abundant recompense" (line 88) does the speaker believe he has received for his "loss" (line 87)?

What do you think is meant by "the burden of the mystery" (line 38)?

What does the speaker see in his "dear Sister" that makes him more aware of what he "was once" (lines 120-121)?

What has the speaker lost since he first "came among these hills" (line 67)?

What is the speaker experiencing at the beginning of the poem (lines 1-22)?

What makes these lines conversational?

What prayer does the speaker make in these concluding lines? Whom is the prayer for? Paraphrase the speaker's thoughts.

What shift takes place in this final stanza?

Re-read these lines, In your own words, what is the "presence" (line 94) that the speaker describes?

What visual clue signals that a new stanza is beginning here? How does the speaker's focus or emphasis change in the new stanza?