Unit 4 4.1-4.5

Read the excerpt from Carol Coffee Reposa's “Vegetable Love in Texas.”

Farmers study archeology

In limp straw hats.

But still I have

This feeble harvest,

Serendipity in red:

Red like a favorite dress,

Warm like a dance,

Lush like a kiss long desired,

Firm like a vow, the hope of rain.

The mood of “Vegetable Love in Texas” is best expressed as

• blissful.

• bitter.

• optimistic.

• romantic.

 Read the excerpt from Jonathan Swift’s poem “Mutton.”

Pickles get and salad both,

Let them each be fresh and green.

With small beer, good ale and wine,

Oh ye gods! how I shall dine.

What effect does the diction in the last line have on the speaker’s tone?

• It shows the speaker’s eagerness.

• It evokes a solemn tone.

• It evokes a religious tone.

• It shows the speaker’s impatience.

Read the excerpt from Marcus Jackson’s “Ode to Kool-Aid.”

You turn the kitchen

tap’s metallic stream

into tropical drink

extra sugar whirlpooling

to the pitcher-bottom

like gypsum sand

Purplesaurus Rex, Roarin’

Rock-A-Dile Red, Ice Blue

Island Twist, Sharkleberry Fin;

Which pair of lines from the excerpt show an example of slant rhyme (or half rhyme)?

• You turn the kitchen / tap's metallic stream

• into tropical drink / extra sugar whirlpooling

• to the pitcher-bottom / Purplesaurus Rex, Roarin'

• Purplesaurus Rex, Roarin' / Island Twist, Sharkleberry Fin;

Read the excerpt from Pablo Neruda’s “Ode to the Cat.”

Nothing hangs together

quite like a cat:

neither flowers nor the moon

have

such consistency.

It’s a thing by itself,

like the sun or a topaz,

and the elastic curve of its back,

which is both subtle and confident,

The irregular length of the lines in the poem helps to create a feeling of

• joy.

• mystery.

• stability.

• urgency.

Read the excerpt from Pablo Neruda’s “Ode to the Cat.”

But the cat

wants nothing more than to be a cat,

and every cat is pure cat

from its whiskers to its tail,

from sixth sense to squirming rat,

from nighttime to its golden eyes.

Which two conventions of poetry does Neruda employ in the poem?

• unequal lines

• a clear pattern

• a regular meter

• irregular punctuation

The poem “Ode to the Cat” is written in the poetic form of an ode. Which statement best defines an ode?

• An ode is a poem that describes animals, making use of half rhymes and figurative language to create mood and tone.

• An ode is a poem that praises its subject, using sensory language and imagery to describe the person or thing.

• An ode is a poem that uses a strict meter and a formal rhyme scheme to evoke images about nature.

• An ode is a poem that uses a formal structure and serious tone to celebrate or promote an ideal.

Read the excerpt from Sophocles’s Antigone

TEIRESIAS: I set up burnt offerings. But Hephaestusfailed to shine out from the sacrifice—dark slime poured out onto the embers,oozing from the thighs, which smoked and spat,bile was sprayed high up into the air,and the melting thighs lost all the fatwhich they’d been wrapped in.

What effect do the underlined words have?

• They create a sense of awe.

• They create a sense of misery.

• They create a sense of foreboding.

• They create a sense of confusion.

 Read the excerpt from William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 130.”

I have seen roses damasked, red and white,

But no such roses see I in her cheeks;

And in some perfumes is there more delight

Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.

How does the rhyme scheme in the poem reinforce the speaker’s message?

• The ABAB rhyme scheme sets up a comparison about the mistress that the speaker promptly dismisses.

• The ABAB rhyme scheme sets up comparisons between the speaker’s mistress and other women.

• The ABAB rhyme scheme establishes an ideal and explains how the speaker’s mistress meets it.

• The ABAB rhyme scheme establishes characteristics of the mistress and explains why the speaker dislikes them.

Read the excerpt from Shakespeare's "Sonnet 130."

That music hath a far more pleasing sound;I grant I never saw a goddess go;My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground.And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rareAs any she belied with false compare.

Shakespeare uses satire in “Sonnet 130” to mock

• other women who are not as beautiful as his mistress.

• the idea of writing poems to praise your mistress.

• his mistress for thinking too highly of herself.

• the flowery language used by men to compliment women.

(1) I wandered lonely as a cloud

(2) That floats on high o'er vales and hills,

(3 ) When all at once I saw a crowd,

(4) A host, of golden daffodils;

(5) Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

(6) Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

In the poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," which line best illustrates the use of personification?

• Line 1

• Line 2

• Line 7

• Line 6