I felt a funeral in my brain

How do the Mourners make the narrator lose her sanity?

• They keep talking

• They keep treading

• They keep beating a drum

• They keep dropping

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

The unfinished feeling of the poem reveals

• The narrator's uncertain future

• The narrator's death

• The narrator is able to think

• The narrator's sense of hearing

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

What punctuation mark does the poem end with?

• Period

• Question mark

• Comma

• Dash

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.7.10

True or False: The narrator is dying

• True

• False

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CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

True or False: The poem uses commas

• True

• False

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What is the pace of the poem?

• Fast

• Slow

• Moderate

• Energetic

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

In the quote: "And I, and Silence, some strange Race", why does the narrator compare herself with Silence?

• She is similar to silence because she can't express herself

• She feels strange

• She and Silence are a type of people

• She is not the same as Silence because she can think

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What do the mourners symbolize?

• People expressing grief or sorrow for the dead.

• The narrator's pain from losing her sanity

• The people at the narrator's funeral

• The time the narrator spent at the funeral

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

The first line of the poem, "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain" is what literary device

• metaphor

• extended metaphor

• simile

• repetition

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.7.5

Define: Treading

• a comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph, or lines in a poem

• A technique a writer uses to produce a special effect in their writing

• A form followed in worship or in a religious ceremony

• stepping, walking, or trampling so as to press, crush, or injure something

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4