Exploring Emigration to America

What does the term "imagery" mean in literature?

• The use of numbers in a poem

• The use of descriptive language to create pictures in the reader’s mind

• The main character in a story

• The title of a poem

Which of the following is an example of a metaphor related to emigration?

• "The ship sailed across the ocean."

• "Their dreams were seeds planted in a new world."

• "They packed their bags and left."

• "The sky was blue."

Read the following line: "The city lights sparkled like stars guiding the lost." What type of imagery is used here?

• Taste

• Sound

• Sight

• Touch

If a poem about emigration uses words like "hope," "future," and "promise," what tone does it most likely have?

• Hopeful

• Fearful

• Angry

• Bored

How might a writer use imagery to help readers understand the feelings of someone emigrating to America?

• By listing the dates of their journey

• By describing the sights, sounds, and smells they experience

• By writing only about the laws of the new country

• By using only dialogue

Imagine you are reading a poem about emigration. How could you determine the mood of the poem?

• By counting the number of lines

• By identifying the emotions the poem makes you feel

• By looking at the author’s name

• By checking the publication date

Comparing two unlike things but it does not use like or as. (a)  

• metaphor
• simile
• Inference
• conflict

The climate of feeling in a literary work; a feeling that a literary work conveys to readers revealed through diction, setting, and character actions.

• Mood

• Conflict

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

How the text makes the reader feel (Ex. Peaceful, eerie, humorous, sad)

• description
• mood
• analysis
• tone

Vivid descritpion of how something looks, sounds, smells, tastes or feels is called ​ (a)   .

Example: "When the sun is bright on the upland slopes;/When the wind stirs soft through the springing grass."---Paul Laurens Dunbar, "Symphony"

• imagery
• Speaker
• Line break
• theme