Why does the speaker of the poem make a list: "Bad dogs, Big ghosts, mean Old Mother Goose, Lions on the loose"?
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Which phrase is the best clue that the poem’s speaker is a child?
Question 3
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Which of these is a fear of something real?
Question 4
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Which of these is a fear of something imaginary?
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What do the words “make them shoo” mean?
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An important idea in the poem is
Question 7
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Why does the speaker repeat the refrain "life doesn't frighten me at all"? (HINT: Remember the purpose of repitition.)
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What attitude can you infer about the speaker?
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The lines ”If I’m afraid at all / It’s only in my dreams” emphasize that the speaker
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How are the details in lines 28 - 32 different from those in stanzas 1 - 4?
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Why is "Kissy little girls/with their hair in curls" in lines 30 - 31 in parentheses?
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What can you infer about the speaker's reaction to the boys in her class?
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Analyze what the speaker means in lines 37 - 40, when she says she has a "magic charm" that she "keeps up her sleeve."
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Which of these lines have the most serious tone, or feeling?
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How does the poem's final stanza differ from the ones before it?
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A stereotype is an over-generalized idea or image about a certain group of people. For example, the stereotype of "Girls are not good at sports." is often beleived to be true even though we can call think of plenty of girls are very good athletes. What stereotype is the speaker referring to in lines 33 and 34?
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Which line shows how very determined the speaker is to never show fear?
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The poem’s theme focuses on the importance of
Question 19
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Tone is
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Rhyme scheme is
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The purpose of repetition is to
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A lyric poem expresses the personal thoughts and feeling of a speaker.
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What's the rhyme scheme of stanza 1 and stanza 2?
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!
Question 24
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Which example best illustrates an example of internal rhyme?