From the Headland

From the Headland

by Mr. Johnson

​What is Theme?

• ​Theme is the lesson or moral of a story

• ​The hidden meaning the author is trying to tell the reader.

Multiple Choice

How do the speaker’s actions convey the theme?

• The speaker’s determination illustrates that delayed satisfaction yields great reward in time.

• The speaker’s fearfulness illustrates that man cannot control the power of nature.

• The speaker’s optimism illustrates that the journey matters more than the destination.

• The speaker’s stubbornness illustrates that first impressions are sometimes wrong.

Poll

How do I determine the tone of a piece of literature? 

• By reading the passage and looking at the author's word choices. 

• By looking at the author's personal opinion. 

• By thinking about how the text makes me feel. 

• By looking at how the author feels and speaks about a certain character. 

Open Ended

What is the purpose of figurative language?

Multiple Choice

How does the figurative language in lines 28-31 impact the poem?

• It creates an admiring and reverent tone.

• It creates an angry and regretful tone.

• It creates a sorrowful and despairing tone.

• It creates a lighthearted and playful tone.

Multiple Choice

What impact does the imagery in lines 32-34 have on the poem?

• The imagery illustrates the beauty of the sea.

• The imagery illustrates the diversity of the sea.

• The imagery illustrates the enormity of the sea.

• The imagery illustrates the force of the sea.

Multiple Choice

How does the personification in lines 6-8 impact the meaning of the poem?

• It highlights the disregard the speaker displays for nature.

• It expresses the fearfulness the speaker displays towards nature.

• It illustrates the power nature exerts over the speaker.

• It highlights the beauty nature presents to the speaker.

​Tone

• The writer or speaker's ​attitude toward the subject.

• ​The author's tone in a literary work can reflect their personal opinion, or the tone can channel the feelings of a particular character.

• ​Authors convey tone through their word choice, punctuation, and sentence structure.

Multiple Choice

What do lines 37-39 reveal about the speaker’s character?

• The speaker is confused and lost.

• The speaker is lonely and isolated.

• The speaker is reflective and content.

• The speaker is sensible and wise.

Poll

How do you figure out the meaning to unknown words or phrases?

• Look at the sentence before the unfamiliar word or phrase

• Look at the sentence behind the unfamiliar word or phrase

• Look at the words surrounding the unfamiliar words or phrase

• Use my background knowledge of the word to make an inference

Multiple Choice

Based on the context, what does limpid mean in line 30?

• Cloudy

• Dazed

• Clear

• Rocky

Multiple Choice

Based on the context, what does enthralled  mean in line 27?

• Amused

• Bored

• Frustrated

• Mesmerized

​Inference

• ​An educated guess

• ​Using what you know to make a guess about what you don't know or reading between the lines

• ​Readers who make inferences use the clues in the text along with their own experiences to help them figure out what is not directly said, making the text personal and memorable.

Multiple Choice

What do lines 37-39 reveal about the speaker’s character?

• The speaker is confused and lost.

• The speaker is lonely and isolated.

• The speaker is reflective and content.

• The speaker is sensible and wise.

Multiple Choice

Which lines best  support the inference that the speaker is an adventurous person?

• “I hear the waters of some inlet now

  Come lapping to the fringe of yonder wood,” (lines 1-2)

• “It cannot say, nor I, why we are here.

  What is my recompense upon this soil,” (lines 9-10)

• “For other paths are mine if I go hence,

  Still must I make the mystery my quest?

  For here or there, I think, one sways my will.” (lines 11-13)

• “Or black, when rushing on the rocky isles

  Anchored in waves that bellow to the winds.

  I watch till comes the night; the moonlight falls,” (lines 35-37)

Multiple Choice

Which quotation best  supports the inference that the speaker is uninspired by the surroundings on the way to the sea?

• “The storm-bent firs, and oaks along the cliff.

  The yellow leaves are glistening in the grass,” (lines 3-4)

• “There is no show of beauty to delight

  The vision here, or strike the electric chord” (lines 14-15)

• “In vales, where summer sleeps in darkling woods

  With sunlit glades, and pools where lilies blow.” (lines 19-20)

• “Down to the whispering rushes in the marsh.

  And this is all, until I reach the cliff,” (lines 25-26)