Poetry Analysis

In "To a Caged Canary", the poem uses an ​ (a)   to show how the speaker ​ (b)   a caged canary.

• extended metaphor
• identifies with
• simile
• metaphor
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

In the poem "To a Caged Canary," the poem ends with:

• a dark outlook on the future

• hope for the future

• the canary turning into a blue jay

• the canary escaping its cage

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

Match the following from "To a Caged Canary"

• the speaker

• lines 9-14

• canary

• lines 1-8

• Speaker and the Canary

• extended metaphor

• shift in rhyme scheme

• Line 9

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Villanelle

,

(b) Sonnet

,

(c) Free verse

• variable length

• may or may not rhyme

• no set rhyme scheme

• 3, four line stanzas

• 10 syllables per line

• 3, five line stanzas

• 19 lines

• repeating lines

• 14 lines

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

The ​ (a)   of certain lines in "Villanelle of Change" shows that the speaker is focused on a ​ (b)  

• repetition
• few key ideas
• metaphor
• rhymes
• length

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Match the following from "Villanelle of Change"

• Acheron

• allusion

• large amount of time passed

• repetition

• violence of past conflict

• battle-blast

• key ideas

• yellow years

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4