Tuesday, 30 October 2012

Brandon Jansen English 10 Poem Analysis Questions On The Greetings From The Incredible Shrinking Woman


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 

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