Paired Passage #8 B

Which statement best expresses the meaning of this poem?

• People have been demoralized and destroyed by the life hardships in cities like Chicago.

• Chicago is a dark, violent, and dirty city with no redeeming qualities.

• Its grit and hardships endow Chicago with positive qualities as well as negative ones.

• People who are not familiar with Chicago often overlook its refinement and

  sophistication.

In describing Chicago, Sandburg primarily employs which literary device:

• Personification

• Allegory

• Allusion

• Foreshadowing

Sandburg conveys a sense of vitality and movement by:

• Describing the city in short, sometimes one-word lines

• Making each line of the poem shorter than the last

• Beginning the poem with a series of allegations and responses

• Eliminating use of any type of punctuation

Read line 20 of the “Chicago” poem.

“here is a tall bold slugger set vivid against the little soft cities;”

The word soft most nearly means:

• Eastern

• Clean

• Weak

• Gentle

From information in the poem, we can logically infer that the speaker:

• is a construction worker

• does not believe there is anything bad about Chicago

• lives in Chicago

• once lived in the country

Which of these describes the rhyme and meter used in the “Chicago” poem?

• Stream of consciousness

• Iambic pentameter

• Free verse

• Blank verse

The speaker’s tone in the “Chicago” poem is:

• Bewildered

• Scornful

• Wistful

• Forthright

Read the lines 17 and 18 of Carl Sandburg’s poem entitled “Chicago.”

“Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.”

This line illustrates the poet’s use of:

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Allegory

• Allusion

Read this line of Carl Sandburg’s poem entitled “Chicago.”

“Fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action, cunning as a savage pitted against the wilderness,”

This line illustrates the poet’s use of:

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Allusion

• Onomatopoeia