Read the excerpt from "Introduction to Poetry" by Billy Collins.or walk inside the poem's roomand feel the walls for a light switch.How does this metaphor reveal Collins’s message?
Read the poem "The Wind’s Visit" by Emily Dickinson.The wind tapped like a tired man,And like a host, "Come in,"I boldly answered; entered thenMy residence within A rapid, footless guest,To offer whom a chairWere as impossible as handA sofa to the air. No bone had he to bind him,His speech was like the pushOf numerous humming-birds at onceFrom a superior bush.His countenance a billow,His fingers, if he pass,Let go a music, as of tunesBlown tremulous in glass. He visited, still flitting;Then, like a timid man,Again he tapped—'t was flurriedly—Dickinson’s use of figurative language in this poem expresses the idea that
Read the excerpt from "I'm Nobody! Who Are You?" by Emily Dickinson.I’m nobody! Who are you?Are you nobody, too?Then there’s a pair of us—don’t tell!They’d banish us, you know.Which statement best explains the central idea of this stanza?
Read the poem "Autumn" by Emily Dickinson.The morns are meeker than they were,The nuts are getting brown;The berry's cheek is plumper,The rose is out of town.The maple wears a gayer scarf,The field a scarlet gown.Lest I should be old-fashioned,I'll put a trinket on.Which statement best explains the central idea of the first stanza?
Read the poem "The Wind’s Visit" by Emily Dickinson.The wind tapped like a tired man,And like a host, "Come in,"I boldly answered; entered thenMy residence within A rapid, footless guest,To offer whom a chairWere as impossible as handA sofa to the air. No bone had he to bind him,His speech was like the pushOf numerous humming-birds at onceFrom a superior bush.His countenance a billow,His fingers, if he pass,Let go a music, as of tunesBlown tremulous in glass. He visited, still flitting;Then, like a timid man,Again he tapped—'t was flurriedly—And I became alone.Dickinson uses a simile in the first stanza of this poem to
Read the excerpt from "Introduction to Poetry" by Billy Collins.They begin beating it with a hoseto find out what it really means.How does the figurative language in this excerpt reveal Collins’s message?
Which line from "I'm Nobody! Who Are You?" by Emily Dickinson contains a simile?
Read the poem "The Mountain" by Emily Dickinson.The mountain sat upon the plainIn his eternal chair,His observation omnifold,His inquest everywhere. The seasons prayed around his knees,Like children round a sire:Grandfather of the days is he,Of dawn the ancestor. Which statement best explains the central idea of this poem?
Read this poem.Canceled plans disappointlike a milk spillso unpredictableruining the dayWhich line from the poem contains a simile?
Read the excerpt from "I'm Nobody! Who Are You?" by Emily Dickinson.How dreary to be somebody!How public, like a frogTo tell your name the livelong dayTo an admiring bog!Which statement best explains the central idea of this stanza?
Read the excerpt from "Introduction to Poetry" by Billy Collins.I ask them to take a poemand hold it up to the lightlike a color slideor press an ear against its hive.Which line from the excerpt contains a metaphor?
Read this poem.Applause sounded through the roomlouder than cannon fireHe bowed below the lightsbasking and buoyantsensing his successWhich line from the poem contains hyperbole?
Read this poem.Worry makes an ache—stomach swims, head throbs . . .It’s an unwanted guestwith endless requests.Like an empty piggy bankWorry offers nothing. Which line from the poem contains a metaphor?
Read the poem "The Mountain" by Emily Dickinson.The mountain sat upon the plainIn his eternal chair,His observation omnifold,His inquest everywhere. The seasons prayed around his knees,Like children round a sire:Grandfather of the days is he,Of dawn the ancestor.What is the effect of Dickinson’s use of figurative language in the second stanza?
Read the excerpt from "Introduction to Poetry" by Billy Collins.I want them to waterskiacross the surface of a poemwaving at the author's name on the shore.How does the figurative language in this excerpt reveal Collins’s message?
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