1. What type of poem is this?
Free Verse, Lyric
2. Provide two examples of
assonance and explain why they are assonance.
Seen in a dream, which in
immense. Both have same letters and sound in the middle of each word.
3. Provide one example of
consonance and explain why it is consonance.
It’s not that. The identical
sound in the middle of the words.
4. Provide an example of
onomatopoeia and explain why it is an onomatopoeia.
Flicked off since it sounds
somewhat like what it means.
5. Provide an example of
personification and explain why it is a personification.
Fraser River which is
immense, swollen like throat-veins. It is describing a river with human parts.
6. Provide four examples of
similes from the poem and explain what two things are being compared.
Expanding, stretching like
silly putty. The continent was expanding exactly like silly putty does. Thrash
like a fish is she comparing herself as a fish using the word thrash.
7. Explain why this poem is
rich in figurative language.
The author is writing about
her experiences to make the poem interesting it needs to compare thinks and use
interesting language.
8. Provide an example of a
hyperbole from the poem and explain why it is a hyperbole.
Fraser River which is
immense, swollen like throat-veins. It is a exaggeration since throat-veins is
connected to humans and not a river so it is not possible.
9. Provide at least two
examples of Imagery from the poem.
I’m getting smaller and now
it is miles from my house. Thrashing like a fish, Fraser River is swollen like
throat-veins.
10. How does the speaker see
her life? Explain.
It is not the full of joy it
is empty since she said that in the poem and the words she uses.
11. Provide examples of lines
from the poem that give the reader a sense of how the speaker feels about the
way her life is going.
Where I am always empty, I
used to see myself at the land’s edge waiting maybe to be flicked off.
12. State, in your own words,
the thought expressed in the final parentheses.
While she is standing she
melts away into a small object, which tells she is not having a nice lifetime
in that moment in time.
13. What is the mood of the
poem?
Sad
