Anybody got nay ideas? assignment your poem now it is time to write your own poem! what will be the theme or topic of your poem? consider what mood you want to create. poems can paint pictures, create ideas, arouse emotions. think about how you can use poetic devices to communicate with your readers. will you use form, personification, an extended metaphor, a childlike rhyme scheme? you may choose to use one or all of these. you many decide to use other poetic devices studied in these lessons. be creative! your poem must include the following: • a rhyme scheme or meter • figurative language • at least one verb in the subjunctive mood

Reread lines 6-7 "the survivor." determine how the tone of these differs from the preceding lines (1-5)

Returning from vietnam, we were given a parade. crowds of screaming people waving signs — not just on one road, one day. no, they were everywhere. every day. on the streets, on the television, on the radio. a hot, angry tangle of shaking fists and ugly words that threatened us like a monster with a hundred heads. our country had chewed us up and spit us out, and now we were being treated as if it were our fault. which sentence best uses figurative language to match the paragraph's tone? a. our feet were frozen in place as the street itself strained to hold us back. b. i felt unappreciated and condemned for actions i had thought were heroic. c. i hadn't expected to find myself in a rags-to-riches situation such as this. d. we had come home to a feeding frenzy and were being treated as bait.

Ipronounced his name, offering him at the same time my hand: he took it, smiling and saying, “we shall do very well by-and-by.” then he laid me down, and addressing bessie, charged her to be very careful that i was not disturbed during the night. having given some further directions, and intimates that he should call again the next day, he departed; to my grief: i felt so sheltered and befriended while he sat in the chair near my pillow… (chapter 3) this passage, in which jane first meets the doctor, is an example of