Have students turn to a partner or form small groups to engage in a collaborative discussion about the way rilke uses imagery and other poetic devices in the poem.

This is the poem^^

This clumsy living that moves lumbering

as if in ropes through what is not done,

reminds us of the awkward way the swan walks.

And to die, which is the letting go

of the ground we stand on and cling to every day,

is like the swan, when he nervously lets himself down

into the water, which receives him gaily

and which flows joyfully under

and after him, wave after wave,

while the swan, unmoving and marvelously calm,

is pleased to be carried, each moment more fully grown,

more like a king, further and further on.

When Rilke uses Imagery, Rilke describes the dancer with strong words. For example, confidence, exultant, and powerful. Rilke uses personification by saying the fire is too tight around her body. Since he says she is flinging it out, it portrays her as confident and brave. When Rilke uses alliteration the author uses the words, faster, fans, flames, and furnace. Since the author uses the vocabulary of passionate and furnace it describes the subject as confident and determined.

answer: b. grete might have remained as shy and immature as she was at the beginning of the story.

one of the most interesting characteristics of gregor's metamorphosis is that, although he is the only character who has physically changed, it is this same change which triggered a transformation in the rest of his family.

by taking care of gregor, grete has become stronger and more confident. she has found a life outside of the house, and has become more independent and self-sufficient. the novel implies that the trigger for the change is gregor's own transformation, and that without it, grete was likely to remain as shy and immature as she was at the beginning of the book.

explanation:

the third one.

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