Name
Date
Poetry Collection: Robert Hayden, William Shakespeare, Ricardo Sánchez
Literary Analysis: Lyric and Narrative Poetry
A lyric poem expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker and uses
images and other details to create a single, unified impression. A narrative poem tells a
story in verse and has all the elements of a short story, including plot, conflict, setting,
characters, and theme.
DIRECTIONS: Choose one lyric poem and one narrative poem in this collection. Write the
title of each poem on the line provided, and then answer the questions about it.
A. Lyric Poem Title:
1. Why is this poem a lyric poem?
2. What are two feelings or emotions that the speaker expresses?
3. List two images that the speaker uses and the ideas they convey.
4. What main impression would you say the poem conveys?
B. Narrative Poem Title:
1. Why is this poem a narrative poem?
2. Summarize the plot in one or two sentences.
3. What is the main conflict or struggle, and how is it resolved in the end?
4. As specifically as possible, identify the poem’s main setting.
5. Who is the main character? What minor characters does the poem feature?
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Date
Poetry Collection: Robert Hayden, William Shakespeare, Ricardo Sánchez
Vocabulary Builder
Word List
aromas
beckoning
ingratitude
legacy
shackles
supple
A. DIRECTIONS: Answer each question with a sentence that uses one of the Word List
words. Use each Word List word only once.
1. What might someone get from a rich relative when that relative dies?
2. How would you describe a person who fails to give thanks to those who help him
or her?
3. How would you describe a light in the darkness?
4. What might you call the smells of different coffees?
5. How could you restrain a criminal?
6. How could you describe a person’s muscular body?
B. WORD STUDY: The prefix in- means “not” or “lacking.” Use the context of the sentences
and what you know about the prefix in- to explain your answer to each question.
1. What might a student do if he were incapable of solving a problem?
2. Are indefinite plans fixed? Explain.
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Date
Poetry Collections: Robert Hayden, William Shakespeare, Ricardo Sánchez;
Emma Lazarus, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Paul Laurence Dunbar
Integrated Language Skills: Grammar
Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases
A preposition is a word that relates a noun or pronoun to another word in the
sentence. The noun or pronoun is called the object of the preposition. A
prepositional phrase consists of a preposition, its object, and any words that modify
the object. The entire phrase serves as an adjective or an adverb. Study this example:
The boy with Mary danced around the empty room.
The first preposition, with, relates its object, the noun Mary, to another word in the
sentence, boy. The preposition and its object form the prepositional phrase with Mary.
The phrase serves as an adjective, describing the noun boy—it tells you which boy. The
second preposition, around, relates its object, the noun room, to another word in the
sentence, danced. The preposition, its object, and the words the and empty, which modify
the object, form the prepositional phrase around the empty room. The phrase serves as an
adverb, describing the verb danced—it tells you where the boy danced.
The chart shows some words that are often used as prepositions.
Sequence
after
before
during
until
Location
above
in
near
under
Direction
around
down
from
up
Other
Relationships
about
at
for
of
A. PRACTICE: Circle the prepositional phrase in each sentence, labeling the preposition P
and its object OP. Draw an arrow to the word that the phrase modifies. On the line
before the sentence, indicate whether the phrase serves as an adjective or an adverb.
1. The study of poetry is not always easy.
2. To understand a poem, you often read between the lines.
3. I enjoyed that poem by an African American poet.
4. He wrote poetry after the Civil War.
5. Read it with me as I recite it aloud.
B. Writing Application: Expand each sentence by adding a prepositional phrase to
describe the underlined word. Write the new sentence on the line.
1. The dog barked all night.
2. The moonlight streamed.
3. We sat together.
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