"Funeral Blues" Check for Understanding

What does prevent mean?

• take action in order to prevent (an anticipated event) happening; forestall.

• keep (something) from happening.

• like (one thing or person) better than another or others; tend to choose.

• an action or event serving as an introduction to something more important.

What does muffled mean?

• not arranged in order; untidy.

• form (an object) out of malleable material.

• wander at random.

• (of a sound) not loud because of being obstructed in some way; muted.

What does mourners mean?

• a person whose job it is to look after someone or something.

• a person who makes a formal proposal at a meeting or in an assembly.

• a person who attends a funeral as a relative or friend of the dead person.

• a person or thing that makes or produces something.

What does moaning mean?

• make a long, low sound expressing physical or mental suffering.

• the making of a long, high-pitched cry or sound.

• complain persistently and in a peevish or irritating way.

• a passionate expression of grief or sorrow.

What does crepe mean?

• a light, thin fabric with a wrinkled surface.

• inflammation of the larynx and trachea in children, associated with infection and causing breathing difficulties.

• a hairstyle in which the hair is cut very short.

• causing an unpleasant feeling of fear or unease.

Why do people use figurative language?

• To make their writing interesting and visual, or to emphasis an idea and make a point.
• To be grammatically correct.
• To structure their writing into paragraphs.
• Because Beyonce uses it in her songs. 

This part of the poem is an example of what form of figurative language?

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,

Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

• onomatopoeia

• simile

The form of figurative language used below is:

He was my North, my South, my East and West,

My working week and my Sunday rest,

• simile

• alliteration

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

Using the same lines from the text, what message is the poet conveying using this figurative language?

He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest,

• The narrator did not really like the person that died.

• The narrator loved the person who died deeply.

• The narrator does not know which way to go.

• The narrator can not rest on Sundays.

The narrator is telling us what by using the hyperbole in the last stanza of them poem?

• There is evidence that paying attention to the the sun, stars, and the moon will help to bring back energy after losing a loved one.

• There was nothing more precious than the sun, moon and ocean to the narrator.

• The sun, moon, and ocean had great significance for them to be able to enjoy nature.

• Anything that brought light, excitement and good is no longer wanted now that this person is no longer there in life.