Frequently Missed Questions

• Write the gist for stanza 1 ?

• Write the gist for stanza 2 ?

• Write the gist for stanza 3 ?

Next, reread all of your gists to create a summary that is short and accurate

Multiple Choice

• What is the importance of the poem's structure in three stanzas?

• Each stanza shows the speaker fishing in a different setting

• Each stanza shows a different scene in the speaker's life

• Each stanza has a different meter and rhyme scheme

• Each stanza tells a different myth about Aengus, the god of love

Multiple Choice

Which is the best summary of the poem?

• An old man wanders in search of a beautiful girl who transforms from a fish he caught many years ago

• An old man wanders in search of a beautiful girl whom he met during a fishing trip many years ago.

• An old man wanders the land and fishes in every stream so he can catch a fish as beautiful as the first fish he ever caught

• An old man wanders to a stream and makes a fishing rod out of a branch so he can catch a fish called "gimmering girl"

​What is the meaning of the word strenuous ?

Multiple Choice

• exhausting

• frightening

• overwhelming

• unfamiliar