a prompt—executive bird is the jay

by emily dickinson

a prompt—executive bird is the jay—

bold as a bailiff's1 hymn—

brittle and brief in quality—

warrant2 in every line—

sitting a bough3 like a brigadier4

confident and straight—

much is the mien5 of him in march

as a magistrate6—

legal officer

legal action

branch of a tree

army officer (british)

appearance

judge

i heard a bird sing

by oliver herford

i heard a bird sing

in the dark of december.

a magical thing

and sweet to remember.

"we are nearer to spring

than we were in september,”

i heard a bird sing

in the dark of december.

read both poems.

what literary device is used throughout the poems?

alliteration

hyperbole

pun

metaphor

Whiat is the best example of a story's historical content?

How does the author use the character of the nurse to develop the social issue of gender inequality? the nurse’s willingness to take care of nora when nora was little demonstrates a woman’s ability to do difficult work. the nurse’s need to give up a child in order to have a job demonstrates a woman’s inability to support herself. the fact that the nurse’s child wrote to her as a young girl and as an adult demonstrates a woman’s ability to keep friends forever. the nurse’s assurance to nora that her children ask for her often demonstrates women’s role in health care.

Match each excerpt to the correct stanza structure. 1. it was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea, that a maiden there lived whom you may know by the name of annabel lee; and this maiden she lived with no other thought than to love and be loved by me. (from "annabel lee" by edgar allan poe) 2. o thou, new-year, delaying long, delayest the sorrow in my blood, that longs to burst a frozen bud and flood a fresher throat with song. (from "in memoriam" by alfred lord tennyson) 3. nature’s first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold. her early leaf’s a flower but only so an hour. then leaf subsides to leaf. so eden sank to grief,; so dawn goes down to day. nothing gold can stay. (from "nothing gold can stay" by robert frost) 4. at sestos hero dwelt; hero the fair, whom young apollo courted for her hair, and offered as a dower his burning throne, where she should sit for men to gaze upon. the outside of her garments were of lawn, the lining purple silk, with gilt stars drawn; (from "hero and leander" by christopher marlowe) quatrain couplet octave sestet