"Making a Fist"

What is a consonance?

• Repetition of a consonant sound

• Repetition of words in a sentence

• Repetition of a "s" sound

• Repetition of a vowel

What is the main theme of the poem?

• inevitability of death

• journey through life

• growing up through childhood

• life is hard

What is an assonance?

• Repetition of a word

• Repetition of a consonant

• Repetition of a vowel

• Repetition of a statement

"A drum in the desert, harder and harder to hear." Is an example of what 2 types of figurative language?

• Alliteration

• Consonance

• Assonance

• Hyperbole

How does alliteration affect this poem?

• It helps it flow

• It helps make it sound better

• Alliteration doesn't affect this poem

• It helps it flow and creates a rhythm

Which line from the poem best describes the theme?

• "I felt the life sliding out of me"

• "Stamped with our unanswerable woes"

• "Years later I smile to think of that journey"

• "My stomach was a melon split wide inside me skin"

What is the symbolic meaning of making a fist?

• Anger; Having the ability to hold a grudge

• Life; Having the strength to live

• Childhood; As you grow up your fist grows

• Family; Looking at your fist reminds you of your family

"The borders we must cross separately, stamped with our unanswerable woes" Is best described as a(n) .....

• Consonance

• Assonance

• Line in the poem

• Description of how sad the speaker is

Which line from the poem has the most alliteration throughout it?

• "I felt the life sliding out of me"

• "'How do you know you are going to die' I begged my mother"

• "I was seven, I lay in the car, watching palm trees swirl a sickening pattern past the glass."

• "'When you can no longer make a fist'"

Why would the author name the poem "Making a Fist" when it's not about making a fist? Choose the best answer

• Making a fist symoolizes life and the author is happy she made it through the long journey

• The poem is about strength through out life and being able to make a fist resembles strength

• She liked the name

• The poem looks back at the authors childhood where making a fist made her think of strength