Sonnet, With Bird

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Complete each item, responding to the prompt or identifying the choice that best answers the question.

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Read the poem "Fences" below.
Mouths full of laughter,
the turistas come to the tall hotel
with suitcases full of dollars.
Every morning my bother makes
the cool beach new for them.
With a wooden board he smooths
away all footprints.
I peek through the cactus fence
and watch the women rub oil
sweeter than honey into their arms and legs
while their children jump waves
or sip drinks from long straws,
coconut white, mango yellow.
Once my little sister
ran barefoot across the hot sand
for a taste.
My mother roared liked the ocean,
"No. No. It's their beach.
"It's their beach."
How does the third stanza differ from the other stanzas in terms of structure? What effect does this different structure create? How does it contribute to a feeling of separateness between the speaker and the tourists?

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The quail help to resolve the speaker's isolation and comfort him in his grief.

The quail represent a cultural difference to which the speaker was not able to adapt.

The quail provide important information about the speaker's travel abroad in general.

The quail present a new twist on the ideas about isolation and grief from earlier in the poem.

9-10.RL.IKI.9

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a part of something larger

an object thrown forward

something requiring work

anything that causes harm

9-10.L.VAU.4a

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"to" or "toward"

"with" or "together"

"out," "outside" or "beyond"

"cause" or "cause to become"

9-10.L.VAU.4b

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noun definition 2

verb definition 1

verb definition 2

verb definition 3

9-10.L.VAU.4c