Read: Warren Pryor – A. Nowlan (Theme & Image Book 1. Page 13)
Answer in complete sentences:
1. What work is done by Warren’s family? (1 mark)
The work Warren's family did was farming.
2. How did Warren represent their hopes and dreams? (1 mark)
Warren represented their hopes and dreams because he had a future still and an education which they never had.
3. Explain the allusion used in the third stanza (see p. 215). What is the poem’s setting? (2 marks)
"Their cups ran over--an allusion to the Twenty Third Psalm."
The poem's setting was probably somewhere in New Brunswick where the poet lives due to the red sand being mentioned.
The poem's setting was probably somewhere in New Brunswick where the poet lives due to the red sand being mentioned.
The metaphor in the second stanza is "..the slender scroll,/ his passport..."
The simile in the fourth stanza is "...serious/ like a young bear inside his teller's cage..."
The simile in the fourth stanza is "...serious/ like a young bear inside his teller's cage..."
Well, it was expected by both the reader and Warren's parents that Warren would love to be away from the toil of the farm, but as it turns out it seems he would rather be working that dying land than doing his office work. "...his axe-hewn hands upon the paper bills/ aching with empty strength and throttled rage."
6. Create hyperlinks to online definitions for the terms allusion, metaphor, simile, and situational irony in the questions above. (2 marks)
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