Sunday Morning Early

"A Clap of thunder beyond those hills. How well sounds travels over water…"

The poet uses these two lines to emphasize the importance of ...

• Truth

• listening

• power

• imagination

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What is the most likely reason the poet ends the first stanza after line 13 ? ( Go back and read line 13.)

• To emphasize the poem's central message (theme?

• TO indicate a change in the poem's setting

• To introduce new details about the poem's speaker

• To highlight a shift in the author's point of view

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CCSS.RL.11-12.11

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Which line BEST explains why the speaker begins to speak at the end of the poem but then stops?

• A clap of thunder beyond those hills.

• it hurts that my daughter is a young woman

• the russet and gold of late summer's sunburnt grasses

• That's the trick in life--learning to leave well enough alone.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9