Before Reading:
- What is perseverance?
- Name 1 person you personally know who has shown perseverance and give an example of it.
- Name 1 person from history who showed perseverance and give an example of it.
- What is the definition of “speaker” of the poem?
- When you restate figurative language in your own words you _____ it.
- Who is the author of “My Mother Enters the Work Force”?
- Who is the author of “Washington Monument by Night”?
- Which author was a poet laureate of the U.S.?
- Which poem refers to the Revolutionary War?
- Who is the speaker of this poem? How do you know?
- How many stanzas are in the poem?
- What did the mother do in the morning?
- What did the mother do in the afternoon?
- What did the mother do in the evenings?
- Why did the mother do all those things?
- “Locomotive whir” is an example of: personification or onomatopoeia?
- What does it mean?
- “Velvet deep as a forest” is an example of: simile, metaphor or personification?
- What does it mean?
- “And now and now sang the treadle” is an example of: simile, personification or hyperbole?
- What does it mean?
- Is the speaker someone who lived during the present time or that of this poem? How do you know?
- How many stanzas are in the poem?
- What is the “great white ghost”?
- Which war is being referred to in the poem?
- Explain lines 10 and 11.
- “The wind bit hard” is an example of: alliteration, personification or metaphor?
- What does it mean?
- “Red footprints wrote on the snow…” is an example of: alliteration, personification or metaphor?
- What does it mean?
- What man is being referred to in stanzas 6, 7 and 8?
- Why are lines 24 and 25 written without words?