Mabe/Roberts Unit 2 Review

​Unit 2 Review

By SANDRA ROBERTS

The Old Sailor Remembers

An unseen voice then answered me,
With gentle, knowing tone:
“If I restore your roving life,
You would return alone.”

“But is there nothing yet you keep
From those long-weathered days,
No ties of heart or cherished souls
That still deserve your praise?”

Ah, dearest crew that shaped my course!
Without them, how I’d drift.
The ones who were my gift.

For one bright day of wind and waves,
Return my youthful sea!
I’d rather stand a daring lad
Than sit in age’s dignity.

Strip off the weight of passing years,
Away with careful thought!
Let surge the wild, unsteady dreams
My early wanderings brought.

One hour to feel my heartbeat race
Against the restless tide,
To chase a storm with reckless joy
And cast all fears aside.

The voice set down its silver shell,
“No sailor can be new.
For youth would steal your wisdom earned
And all your friendships too.”

And so I smiled—my smile became
The morning’s rising call.
I wrote my dream when sunlight came
To guide my old friends all.

Multiple Choice

What is the meaning of the extended metaphor in the poem?

• A. The sailor’s wish for youth shows he truly prefers the peace of aging

•  B. The sailor’s desire for adventure reveals the dangers of the sea

•  C. The sailor’s longing for youth reveals what he would lose by reclaiming it

• D. The sailor’s conversation with a spirit reveals the mystery of ocean legends

  
  

Multiple Choice

Which line best supports your answer to the extended metaphor question?

• A. “I’d rather stand a daring lad / Than sit in age’s dignity.”
  

  
  

• B. “One hour to feel my heartbeat race / Against the restless tide.”
  

•  C. “Ah, dearest crew that shaped my course! / Without them, how I’d drift.”

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  D. “No sailor can be new. / For youth would steal your wisdom earned.”

  
  

Multiple Select

Which TWO choices state themes of the poem?

•  Appreciate the people in your life more than the experiences you chase
  

• Wisdom grows only through hardship
  

• You may long for the past but must value what time has given you

•  Age always brings regret
  

• The ocean symbolizes danger that can only be survived in youth

  
  

Match

Label each line as “Contains metaphor” or “Does not contain metaphor”.

• Contains Metaphor

• Contains Metaphor

• Does NOT Contain Metaphor

“Return my youthful sea!”

The voice set down its silver shell

To chase a storm with reckless joy

• “Return my youthful sea!”

• The voice set down its silver shell

• To chase a storm with reckless joy

There’s the lantern in the window, and the laughter near the door,
And the woven rugs that brightened every footstep on the floor.
There are maple leaves that shimmer in the yard beside the lane,
And the simplest autumn whisper feels like joy returned again.
Oh, no palace built of marble under heaven’s silver glow
Can calm a weary traveler like the place he longs to know.

Men have sought the world’s approval; men have chased the world’s praise;
In the rush of youthful longing they have lost their quiet ways.
But applause is thin as paper, and its shine is quick to fade,
And the crown of empty honor soon becomes a heavy shade.
There is no song as tender, though you wander far and wide,
As the voices of your loved ones gathered warmly by your side.

So wherever someone journeys, and whatever grief they bear,
The hearthlight of their memories is a flame that lingers there.
All their dreams stay threaded gently through the patterns of the past,
With the faces of their dear ones holding steady, sure, and fast.
These are treasures time can’t tarnish when pretenses fall away;
These are truths that stand unbroken at the closing of the day.

Multiple Choice

Why does the speaker use hyperbole here?

“Oh, no palace built of marble under heaven’s silver glow
Can calm a weary traveler like the place he longs to know.”

•  To compare the home to a palace

• To show the immense emotional power of home
  

• To describe how large the palace is
  

• To reveal the speaker once lived in a palace

  
  

Multiple Choice

Which structural choice contributes MOST to the poem’s musical quality?

• varied line lengths

•  repetition of images in each stanza
  

• predictable rhythm and rhyme pattern
  

• repeated punctuation

  
  

Match

Categorize the Following:

• Found in the Hearthlight

• Found in the Hearthlight

• Found in the Hearthlight

• NOT Found in the Hearthlight

• NOT Found in the Hearthlight

predictable rhyme

use of stanzas

paired rhyming lines

narrative structure

alliteration

• predictable rhyme

• use of stanzas

• paired rhyming lines

• narrative structure

• alliteration

I knew how to swim like a champion, so when my dad suggested a summer swim camp, I signed up immediately. At the camp, real college swimmers who trained you to improve your technique. A few days before camp, a packet was delivered to me by my dad, and that was when I noticed it: Junior Instructor. I thought I was going to learn, but my dad had enrolled me as a helper.

Junior instructors did not swim with the advanced group. Instead, they were stuck working with the youngest beginners. How could I sharpen my backstroke if I was an instructor?

On the first day, I forced a cheerful grin while I stood with my tiny swimmers. I memorized their names and watched the coaches demonstrate the drills that, with my help, the kids would practice. I longed to practice my own butterfly stroke and get pointers from the coaches. Instead, I guided the little swimmers through each routine. At first, they barely kicked and splashed more than they swam. But slowly, as the tips I gave started clicking for them, they began to glide across the water.

By the end of the week, my group finished stronger than most. I realized that by teaching them, I learned a lot about my own swimming. Their progress showed me how to refine every stroke I used. We didn’t win any big races, but next year we planned to dominate our age bracket.

Multiple Choice

What revision is needed?    “A few days before camp, a packet was delivered to me by my dad, and that was when I noticed it: Junior Instructor.”

• A few days before camp, a packet from my dad was delivered to me, and that was when I noticed it: Junior Instructor.
  

• A few days before camp, I noticed it in the packet from my dad that was delivered to me: Junior Instructor.
  

•  A few days before camp, my dad handed me a packet, and that was when I noticed it: Junior Instructor.
  

• correct as is

  
  

Multiple Choice

What correction is needed?       

“How could I sharpen my backstroke if I was an instructor?”

• if I am

•  if I were
  

• if I had been
  

• correct as is

  
  

Multiple Choice

What correction is needed?  

  “I realized that by teaching them, I learned a lot about my own swimming.”

• I had learned
  

•  I was learning

•  I had been learning
  

• correct as is