Ask yourself these questions as you revise: Does my introduction paragraph focus on the language of the Declaration of Independence? Did I create 6 to 12 annotations? Do my annotations really help readers understand the text? Do my definition annotations focus on the meanings of the words as they are used in context? Do my explanatory annotations analyze the authors' use of language? Are my explanatory annotations written in complete sentences using clear, elegant language? Did I address all the language features listed below at least once? Vocabulary Rhetoric Deductive reasoning Parallelism (which is a form of syntax)

theres no poem include that

try to do soaps tone.

s-subject

o-occasion (the reason the author wrote the poem)

a-audience (who is this poem mostly for)

p-purpose (was it to convince, inspire, etc. the audience)

s-speaker (can be the author or another character, like is a child, adult, woman, elderly, animal narrating the poem)

tone- the mood the reader gets from this poem

mood- the mood the author had with their own poem

meaning- what do you think the meaning is?

message- what is the author trying to explain to the audience? like what is the theme?

if you still don't get it try showing everyone the poem so they could unravel it

the answer is mary made mudpies on monday.

remember alliteration is the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.  

the word that best matches the meaning of the expression "went to the big ocean" is died.

the goldfish died, which is why the father looks at the children mournfully. the "big ocean" is the father's way of saying fish heaven. he could have just said that the goldfish died, but this way, the children imagine the fish in a bigger, better place instead of just picturing a dead fish.

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