Drag the tiles to the boxes to form correct pairs. Identify the type of poetic foot used in each excerpt.
iambic
trochaic
anapestic
dactylic
By the shores of Gitche Gumee,
By the shining Big-Sea-Water,
(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
"Hiawatha's Childhood")
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
(William Wordsworth, "I Wandered
Lonely as a Cloud)
"Forward, the Light Brigadel
Charge for the gunsi" he said.
(Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "The
Charge of the Light Brigade")
The volcanoes are dim, and the
stars reel and swim

Read the excerpt. … in lower burma, i was hated by large numbers of people. … i was subdivisional police officer of the town, and … anti-european feeling was very bitter. … as a police officer i was an obvious target and was baited whenever it seemed safe to do so. … i had already made up my mind that imperialism was an evil thing. … i was all for the burmese and all against their oppressors, the british. what is the situational irony in the excerpt from “shooting an elephant” by george orwell? the narrator is a british police officer and part of the system he dislikes. the narrator is himself a well-liked member of the burmese government. the narrator has recently become a burmese citizen. the narrator has decided to leave the british empire.

Now close reading is an essential and foundational skill needed to succeed in any language arts course. acquiring this skill will you form a strategy when writing about literature. you will be required to perform and develop this skill as you progress through this course and other courses in your school career. identify and discuss your areas of strength in language arts. what do you do well? what do you like doing in a course like this? why do those tasks work well for you? you can also identify a challenge you have that you’d like to work on throughout this course. use this discussion as an opportunity to give advice to your classmates based on your stronger skills and to ask for with skills you are still developing.

Read the sentence from barrio boy by ernesto galarza. "now, ernesto, you are the man of the family. you will take care of your mother until we are together in sacramento. which statement best describes the figurative language used in these sentences? a simile is used to compare ernesto to a man. a simile is used to paint a picture of family life. a metaphor is used to compare a man and his family. a metaphor is used to paint a picture of responsibility.