Literature: Figures of Speech - Tuesday, 4 August Exercise 1: Identify and understand personification
Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow'.
I meant to do my work today
Richard Le Gallienne
I meant to do my work today,
But a brown bird sang in the apple tree,
And a butterfly flitted across the field,
And all the leaves were calling me.
And the wind went sighing over the land,
Tossing the grasses to and fro,
And a rainbow held out its shining hand -
So what could I do but laugh and go?
Questions
1. What human qualities are referred to in the poem?
2. Why did the poet write this poem?
3. What two figures of speech is used in line 2? What effect does it have?

1. The human qualities referred in the poem are: brown bird sang, leaves were calling me, wind went sighing, tossing the grasses, Held out its shining hand

2. The poem write this poem because he was procrastinating

3. In line 2, the figures used is personification, the effects it have is that the readers we're visualizing all the imagery on the poem.

Explanation:

in the shadow of war

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)