answer now !
if you said goodbye to me tonight
there would still be music left to write
what else could i do, i’m so inspired by you
that hasn’t happened for the longest time
source: joel, billy. “for the longest time.” lyrics007.com. lyrics007.com, n. d. web. 18 may 2011.
which technique does billy joel use to establish unity between the lines?
imagery
syntax
alliteration
rhyme
read the poem below and answer the question that follows.
“for the dead”
by adrienne rich
i dreamed i called you on the telephone
to say: be kinder to yourself
but you were sick and would not answer
the waste of my love goes on this way
trying to save you from yourself
i have always wondered about the left-over
energy, the way water goes rushing down a hill
long after the rains have stopped
or the fire you want to go to bed from
but cannot leave, burning-down but not burnt-down
the red coals more extreme, more curious
in their flashing and dying
than you wish they were
sitting long after midnight
source: rich, adrienne. “for the dead.” famouspoetsandpoems. com. famouspoetsandpoems. com, n. d. web. 18 may 2011.
which technique does the poet use to continue lines of poetry into the next without stopping?
rhythm
rhyme
enjambment
imagery
read the poem “i’m nobody” by emily dickinson and answer the question that follows.
i’m nobody! who are you?
are you — nobody — too?
then there’s a pair of us
don’t tell! they’d advertise — you know!
how dreary — to be — somebody!
how public — like a frog —
to tell one’s name — the livelong june —
to an admiring bog!
why is the frog simile an effective image of the “somebody” in dickinson’s poem?
it blends in and does not disturb the bog.
it’s ugly, but people still admire it.
it croaks loudly, calling attention to itself.
it has many positive qualities that should be admired.