MT1 LT1.2.3 Choice Board

What is the tone of the poem? List two words/phrases from the poem that convey the tone.

What is the mood? What words or phrases does the author use to create this mood?

What is the purpose of the text?

• persuade

• inform

• explain

• entertain

Which of the following best describes the organizational structure of Whitman’s poem?

• Chronological retelling of events

• Reflective and meditative progression

• Problem and solution

• Compare and contrast

Which line demonstrates Whitman’s use of imagery as a rhetorical style?

• "All alone stood it and the moss hung down from the branches"

• "I know very well I could not."

• "It is not needed to remind me as of my own dear friends,"

• "For I believe lately I think of little else than of them,"