What elements create the humorous effects of the poem?
What will be an ideal response?
- One significant element of the poem’s humor is its use of familiar habits of dogs—sniffing, licking, barking, etc.—and its “skillful and illuminating combination of two images or ideas,” in both the first and last stanzas. Another is the allusion to the Browning sonnet in the context of a dog’s devotion and its shedding. And, not to overanalyze a charming jeu d’esprit, but line 6 is especially interesting: it amuses us in the way it fills the five-syllable requirement by using the same word five times, a word whose meaning fits the context and which even sounds like a dog barking, especially when repeated this way. (Also, as with the Browning reference, it may remind readers of two famous—and very serious—lines of poetry that are similarly constructed: Lear’s cry of “Never! Never! Never! Never! Never!” at the end of Shakespeare’s King Lear and Walt Whitman’s “Death! Death! Death! Death! Death!” in “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking.”)
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a. however b. also c. hence
?PASO 3. Verbos.What are some of the daily activities of these students? Complete the following sentences with the logical verbs from the list. Write them in the correct form of the present tense.Do not repeat verbs. aprender comer correr escribir Esteban le ________________ mensajes de texto a su familia todos los días.?
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
¡Ay! ¿Qué pasó? Una noche Miriam tuvo una experiencia desagradable. Escribe la forma correcta del verbo entre paréntesis según el contexto. (¡OJO! Remember that you must differentiate between the preterite and the imperfect forms of the past tense according to context.) (ser) (1) _______________ las cuatro de la mañana del domingo. Yo (dormir) (2) ______________ cuando de repente (oír) (3) ______________ un sonido muy fuerte (very loud noise) y (despertarse) (4) ______________. Recuerdo que (llover) (5) ______________ muchísimo. Hacía un viento horrible. Yo (tener) (6) ______________ miedo porque en ese momento no (comprender) (7) ______________ lo que pasaba. Yo (levantarse) (8) _____________________ de mi cama y (mirar) (9) _________________ por la ventana. El sonido
fuerte (10) (ser) ______________________ solamente un trueno (thunder). Regresé a mi cama a dormir.(10) Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
What do we learn at the beginning of Chapter 10 about the way that Scout and Jem feel about Atticus? How does Atticus’s defense of Tom Robinson reinforce those feelings?
What will be an ideal response?