Silverstein, Paz and Field Poetry

Silverstein, Paz and Field Poetry

By Paula Rein

​Reading: Read Aloud According to Punctuation to Paraphrase

Paraphrasing is restating something in your own words. To paraphrase a poem, you must first understand it and then use simpler language to restate its meaning. Reading aloud according to punctuation will help you find clues to a poem's meaning.

• When you read a poem aloud, do not automatically stop at the end of each line.

• Pause only at punctuation marks, as if you were reading a prose passage.

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​Reading: Read Aloud According to Punctuation to Paraphrase

Even when you read poetry silently to yourself, it will make more sense if you follow these rules:

• No punctuation at the ends of lines: don't stop

• After a comma (,): slight pause

• After a colon (:), semicolon (;), or dash (—): longer pause

• After endmarks—a period (.), question mark or exclamation point (!): full stop

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Multiple Choice

This is the day the circus comes

• Slight Pause

• Longer Pause

• Full Stop

• Don't Stop

Multiple Choice

With blare of brass, with beating drums,

• Slight Pause

• Longer Pause

• Full Stop

• Don't Stop

Multiple Choice

And clashing cymbals, and with roar

• Slight Pause

• Longer Pause

• Full Stop

• Don't Stop

Multiple Choice

Of wild beasts never heard before

• Slight Pause

• Longer Pause

• Full Stop

• Don't Stop

Multiple Select

Within town limits. Spick and span

• Slight Pause

• Longer Pause

• Full Stop

• Don't Stop

Multiple Choice

Will shine each gilded cage and van;

• Slight Pause

• Longer Pause

• Full Stop

• Don't Stop

​Literary Analysis: Sound Devices

Sound devices are a writer's tools for bringing out the music in words and for expressing feelings. Sound devices commonly used in poetry include the following:

• Repetition: the use, more than once, of any element of language—a sound, word, phrase, clause, or sentence—as in give me liberty, or give me death

• Alliteration: the repetition of initial consonant sounds, such as the r sound in rock 'n' roll or the sl sound in slipping and sliding

• Onomatopoeia: the use of a word that sounds like what it means, such as roar and buzz

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Multiple Select

I've been scratched and sprayed and bitten

• Repetition

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

Multiple Select

No more midnight meowing mews

• Repetition

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

Multiple Select

Water and wind and stone

• Repetition

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

Multiple Choice

the water murmurs as it goes

• Repetition

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

Multiple Select

With blare of brass, with beating drums,

• Repetition

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

Multiple Choice

And clashing cymbals, and with roar

• Repetition

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

Multiple Choice

What does someone want to give the speaker in "No Thank You"?

• a gerbil

• a kitten

• a baby monkey

• a puppy

Multiple Choice

In "No Thank You," what is the speaker's attitude toward pets?

• humorous

• accepting

• fearful

• admiring

Multiple Choice

What sound device does the poet use in these lines from "No Thank You"?

I have room for mice and gerbils, / I have beds for boars and bats,

• punctuation

• rhymes

• onomatopoeia

• repetition

Multiple Choice

In "No Thank You," which line tells you that the speaker may be changing his or

her mind?

• No more long hair in my cornflakes,

• I've developed allergies.

• If you've got an ape, I'll take him,

• Well...it is kind of cute at that.

Multiple Choice

The words in the title of "Wind and water and stone" are used throughout the

poem. What sound device is this?

• rhyme

• onomatopoeia

• repetition

• punctuation

Multiple Choice

There is no stop or pause after one of the lines in this passage from "Wind and

water and stone." After which line will you not stop or pause?

• One is the other, and is neither:

• among their empty names

• they pass and disappear,

• water and stone and wind.

Multiple Choice

Which pair of words best describes the speaker's attitude toward elements of

nature in "Wind and water and stone"?

• ignorant and uncaring

• joyful and loving

• angry and scared

• calm and accepting

Multiple Choice

As you read these three lines from "Parade," where will you pause or stop?

Till leisurely and last of all

Camels and elephants will pass

Beneath our elms, along our grass.

• after the words all and pass

• after the words elms and grass

• after the words leisurely and Last

• after the words Till and Beneath

Multiple Choice

Why does the speaker in "Parade" seem to enjoy the parade?

• It is an unusual event.

• Everyone is friendly for a change.

• It happens outdoors.

• It is free entertainment.

Multiple Choice

The words blare, clashing, and roar in "Parade" are examples of which sound

device?

• punctuation

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• repetition