Filial Piety Poem Introduction

What does filial piety mean?

• Respecting older family members

• Obedience to country

• Respect to teachers

• Loyalty

What is going on in the poem?

• An old man is complaining about his family members

• The family members are carrying out funeral rites for an old man

• The family is cremating the old man

• The family is at the hospital paying their last respects

Which words in stanza 1 suggest that the feelings felt by the family were not sincere? (2 correct)

• display

• waste

• taught

• black

What is the literary device used in "The hall was dressed with condolences

the coffin was heaped with sympathy"

• Allusion

• Diction

• Repetition

• Personification

How does "wailing symphony" show how the family members were not genuinely sad about the death of the old man?

What literary device do you see in "Many gestured their last respects

Many sobbed their sad regrets

Many mourned their heartfelt loss"

• Simile

• Personification

• Repetition

• Metaphor

What attitude do the family members have when they play "cards, mahjong and dice-tossed"? (2 answers)

• Indifferent

• Disrespectful

• Guilty

• Mournful

Which words in stanza 4 suggest that they were merely doing their job as relatives and not because they are sad over his death? (2 answers)

• "performed"

• "precise"

• "tears"

• "ceremony"

"Uncles should offer roasted pigs

aunties should come with big baked cakes

sisters should wail their very best

and their husbands must buy the paper chests." Which word here is used to show that the family members are just "doing their job"?

• come

• offer

• should

• wail

What is the literary device used in "only his two lonely candle flames remained

to weep his years of pain." (2 answers)

• Diction

• Personification

• Repetition

• Contrast