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Mr. Chi's Writing Strategy Poems
Mr. Chi's Writing Strategy Poems
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Review for the ELA Regents TAR
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Line breaks help you understand the meaning of a poem
true
false
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Why do the students beat the poem with a hose to find out what it really means?
They were bored
They are sadistic
We are used to reading for meaning not beauty
They hate poetry
3
In the Unwritten by WS Merlin he uses personification about words to describe...
you can set a pencil on fire and the words come out
YOU SHOULD NEVER WRITE IN PENCIL ON THE REGENTS!
they are made of lead
The power and potential that they have
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In Marianne Moores poem, “Poetry” she uses irony. What is an example of that?
When she describes it as a place for the genuine
Her description of imaginary gardens with real toads in them
this is a stupid question
“I, too dislike it” suggesting the poet and reader both don’t like poetry
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Maya Angelou refers to the men around her in Phenomenal Woman as swarming like honey bees. What does that mean?
She is describing how attractive she is to men with hyperbole
She has made the angry and they want to sting her
She is comparing herself to a beehive
They literally spin around her and buzz
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In Ars Poetica, Archbald MacLeish compares poems to globed fruit and old medallions, what is he trying to say?
A poem should be round
A poem should be seen as one thing not individual words
He was dropped on his head as a baby
poems aren’t real
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In "Coal" by Audre Lorde, she describes a naturally occurring paradox which is...
Coal and Diamonds are essentially the same thing
racism is stupid
People pressure each other with hurtful language
Love potentially opens you up to pain
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In Introduction to Poetry by Billiy Collins, the speaker suggests you hold a poem to the light like a color slide. Why?
if you hold your paper up to the light, you can see throughit
analysis is not always the best way to understand a poem
it's a simile
he's weird
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Archibald MacLeish gives rules for making poetry in Ars Poetica, what do you think he might say in a poetry class?
poetry is stupid
Don’t worry about the big picture in your poems.
Your poem should feel organic as if it grew out of you
It’s very important for your poem to feel unnatural
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When Muhammad Ali says I’m so fast that when I turn out the lights I’m in bed before the room is dark...
that's impossible
it's symbolic of something else
he is correct
he is using hyperbole
