Mosquito responses

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Understanding the Poem
1. Explain what the details in the poem reveal about the speaker, setting, occasion, conflict, and purpose of the poem.
2. What can we discover about the protagonist through both direct and indirect characterization? What motivates his actions and feelings?
3. Analyze any three of the similes and metaphors in the poem. Is there a pattern in the vehicles used?  Are they appropriate to the purposes of the poem? How are the protagonist’s feelings displayed through the choice of figurative language?
4. What tone is produced by the sound devices in the poem? Consider the uses and effect of rhyme, meter, metrical substitutions, enjambment, caesura, alliteration, assonance, and consonance, and choose one example of each to comment on. What is the overall effect of sound in the poem in relation to its meaning: is the sound primarily euphonious or cacophonous?
Thesis Blueprint
In [poet]’s poem [title of poem—in quotation marks], [literary devices] creates a [Choose a word from your tonal chart.] tone by [What is the purpose of a mock epic poem?].

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