Lesson 4.2: (love song, with two goldfish)

What is the meaning of "drifter"?

• A type of bird that migrates long distances
• A type of fast-growing plant commonly found in deserts
• A person who moves from place to place without any fixed home or job
• A professional athlete who competes in multiple sports

What is the meaning of "dart" in "He darts behind pebbles"?

• jumping over obstacles
• move quickly and suddenly in a particular direction
• throwing a small pointed object
• slowly and cautiously moving forward

What are these?

• Scales

• Pebbles

• Rocks

• Stones

What are these?

• Scales

• Goldfish

• Salmon

• Skin

Hook, line and sinker are a part of ....

• cooking utensils
• fishing equipment
• gardening tools
• office supplies

What are puns?

• A form of wordplay that exploit multiple meanings of a word or similar-sounding words for humorous or rhetorical effect.
• A form of exercise
• A type of fruit
• A type of dance

Which one is NOT a pun?

• Bear with me!

• The sky is blue.
• I'm reading a book about anti-gravity. It's impossible to put down.
• I used to be a baker, but I couldn't make enough dough.

Which NOT a pun from the poem?

• "He's a drifter,

  always

  floating around her"

• "He wishes

  she would sing, not much, just the scales"

• "The underwater musician played the bass."

How is the fishbowl described in the poem?

• • The bowl is comfortable and the male fish considers it his home.

• • The bowl confines both fish to the same space.

• • The fish are so in love that they don’t think about the bowl.

• • The bowl provides depressingly little space for the fish.

What two meanings does the word "scales" have in the first stanza?

• • "Scales" refers to musical scales she might sing.

• • "Scales" refers to a device for measuring the weight of things.

• • "Scales" refers to climbing something of height.

• • "Scales" refers to the scales of a fish's skin.