Handcuffs

The title can be seen as a

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

The title can mean:

(Choose two)

• Something that constrains you

• Feeling of imprisonment

• An imprisoned mind

• Being in jail

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

The setting of the poem is

• Johannesburg

• Apartheid

• KZN

• None of the above

"Have steel fangs", is a

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

"Have steel fangs" shows

• It is emotionally painful

• Handcuffs can bite

• The handcuffs are on tightly and hurt

• It is an idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

"A whole battalion" is a

• A lot of insects

• A large body of troops

• A lot of humans

• A lot of pain

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

"Battalion of fleas" shows us

• Hyperbole, and how annoying it is

• Metaphor, that it is an attack

• Hyperbole, it is literal itch from war

• None of the answers

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

"Though" shows

• He feels he deserves it

• He wants to start a war

• A contradiction

• He wants to give up

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

"Itch in my heart" is a

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

"Itch in my heart grows, I cannot scratch" refers to

• The situation of Apartheid that bothers him and he feels like he cannot do much about it.

• He feels alone.

• He feels Apartheid has stripped him of his humanity.

• He has started a rebellion.

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.4