Penelope (Dorothy Parker)

What is the significance of the title of the poem?

• names the wife of Odysseus

• makes an allusion to an epic poem

• single word directly names the subject of the poem

• randomly selected woman's name

What do you notice about the structure?

• one complete stanza

• two even stanzas

• Elizabethan sonnet

• series of rhyming couplets

When Dorothy Parker says "I" in "Penelope" who is she referring to?

• Odysseus

• Telemachus

• Athena

• Penelope

"He shall ride the silver seas," is an example of

• assonance

• metaphor

• alliteration

• simile

Who does "he" and "him" refer to in the poem?

• Odysseus

• Telemachus

• Agamemnon

• Poseidon

"In the footsteps of the breeze" is what kind of literary device?

• imagery

• alliteration

• personification

• simile

How does the author connect the poem to the Odyssey? 

• allusion

• epic simile

• personification

• symbolism

What did the author mean by "rock"? 

• rock in a chair

• rock out with a guitar

• rock out and jam

• throw rocks at enemies

What does heed mean?

• to annoy

• to be ignorant

• to pay careful attention

• to disregard

What does the tone in line 10 reveal about the speaker's attitude? 

• The speaker is enraged with how they are viewed 

• The speaker is sad because she doesn't get any credit

• Happiness because she is proud of the other person

• The speaker is indifferent.