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Cares pull my spirits down 1
Always force me, ‘wear a frown’ I heard, “You’ll in darkness drown; For weeds in you are also sown.” Seeds like unknown fear and worry 2 Sprouted in my nursery bed of merry On watering, I nourished misery Unable to differentiate their finery Gradually grew seeds called health and wealth 3 But sorrow and sufferings sapped its strength I battled and struggled to save my breath Expecting someone to fill my heart with mirth With this frame of mind No way of escape I could find 4 On reaching office, I read this thought Recited it several times in my heart That every sad day Is followed by a glad day As a team we discussed the layout 5 Of a very important handout Green is good and soothes the eye Yellow and black never get an instant goodbye 6 Red and navy blue give a professional look Lavender or sky blue, gets anyone on hook Everyone suggested a hue And it granted me a cue 7 Of great surprise among a few That if colors carried a clue Of a top secret message Then I remembered a passage For this world Jesus is the true light 8 Who makes the face of any man bright He’ll weed and make me alright My life like aroma will ascend in His sight 9 If each and every shade That Almighty has made Reflects God, as a mighty tower And also expounds His awesome power 10 Unique His way of having seen my form Being formed in womb like a worm Fearful yet surprise filled is His greatness 11 I wonder and move about carrying His likeness |
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1. What are the first 2 lines of the first stanza called? 2. What is in the 1st line of the 10th stanza? 3. Give an example of internal rhyme in the 3rd stanza. 4. Give an example of simile from the 10th stanza. 5. What are the first 2 sentences in stanza 4 an example of? 6. What are the long and short patterns through stressed and unstressed syllables in the poem called? 7. What is the rhyme scheme of the 5th stanza?. 8. What is paragraph 6 called? 9. What are the first 3 lines in stanza 7 called? 10. What is paragraph 2 (not stanza)? 11. What is paragraph 9 an example of? |
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers? If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked? He waited an eternity to go to lunch. At lunch, he could see the cheesy pizza as it sizzled on the plates. However, he slipped just as he got his pizza. Slap! went the pizza on the surface of the floor. The pizza reached for his hands and cried out as it slapped the floor with a thunk and Slap! After it had gone slap, the boy reached for the pizza so he could put it on his plates. Kit Kats were my Achilles Heel. ----------------------------------------------------------------> I used to be a banker but pretty soon, I just lost interest. ----------------------------> (http://www.punoftheday.com/cgi-bin/disppuns.pl?ord=F) Men sell the wedding bells. ------------------------------------------------------------------>>> Old Pond by Bashu. Old pond a frog jumps the sound of water Tam Lin 1 'O I forbid you maiden all That wears gold in your hear, To come or go by Canterhaugh For young Tam Lin is there Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood by William Wordsworth 2 There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light The glory and the freshness of a dream It is not now as it hath been of yore;-- Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more. "With the farming of a verse Make a vineyard of the curse Sing of human unsuccess In a rapture of distress; In the deserts of the heart Let the healing fountain start, In the prison of his days Teach the free man how to praise" (In memory of W.B. Yeats by W.H. Auden) |
12. What is this an example of?
13. What is the first sentence an example of? 14. What is the second sentence an example of? (How does it appeal to the senses?) 15. Give one example of onomatopoeia in the sentence? 16. What sentence is there an example of personification? Write it out. 17. Write out the two sentences that show repetition. 18. In the sentence here, what is it an example of? 19. What is this sentence an example of? 20. What is this sentence an example of? 21. Give an example of a famous epic. 22. What is the name of the haiku on the left side of the screen? 23. What is the paragraph number of the elegy? 24. What is the paragraph number of the ballad? 25. What is the paragraph number of the ode? |
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