ERWC- "On Leaving, On Staying Behind"

The point of view or perspective of a poem or story is...

• The way the work makes you feel

• The sound of the poem or story, or the author's voice

• A conversation between characters

• Who is telling the story.

Tags

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.7

Define couplet

• Rhyming pattern ABBA

• Two lines, one thought

• Rhythm pattern: no stress, stress

• Two stanzas, one story

Tags

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.6

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.7

Creates images in the mind of the reader uses figurative metaphorical language to improve the readers experience.

Often appeals to our senses: touch, sight, smell, taste, hear

• Couplet

• Perspective

• Metaphor

• Imagery

a dividing and organizing technique which places a group of lines in a poem together, separated from other groups of lines by line spacing or indentation.

• Metaphor

• Stanza

• Adjectives

• Imagery

What describes people who are entering a country to live?

• internal migration

• immigrating

• emigrating

• push factor

What is "migrate"?

• asking a country for protection

• the act of moving permanently

• amount of people who move yearly

• reasons people leave a country

Entering a country when moving from somewhere else

• Chain Migration

• Emigration

• Seasonal Migration

• Immigration

What Point Of View is this passage?

As I stepped onto the shiny porch of my new house, I thought to myself, "This is gonna be a good day."

• First-person POV

• Second Person POV

• Third Person Limited POV

• Third Person Omniscient POV

"They think I don’t know what they mean. I know what a man can take from a woman. I know my younger cousins’ pride."

From whose perspective is this stanza written?

• Daughter

• Mother

• Cousin

• American Professor

What are the exigent circumstances for the daughter's leaving in the poem "On Leaving"? Check all that apply.

• lack of opportunity

• lack of wealth

• lack of beauty

• lack of family