The speakers in the poem are:
“Two speakers: one dead and one living”.
<u>Explanation:</u>
The poem, “Is My Team Ploughing?” by A.E Housman, is about a conversation that takes place between two friends, one who is dead and the other who is living, and has come to visit him at his grave.
This is depicted or observed by the way the poet writes certain questions in inverted quotations, revealing that they are questions are asked by the friend in the grave, wanting to know how things in the outside world are as he no longer can see or observe them.
Answer:
me my friend my other friend
Explanation:
Abstract Language: love, success, freedom, democracy
alliteration: Dunkin donuts, coca cola, Mickey mouse, Sally sells seashells by the seashore
Colloquial language: wanna, gonna, go nuts
Concrete language: walking, spoon, hot
connotation: childish is negative connotation while youthful is positive
denotation: doves are associated with peace
hyperbole: I am dying of shame
onomatopoeia: oh, whisper, yay, gushing stream
sarcasm: I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved it.
dramatic literature: Romeo and Juliet
allegory: the giver, the tortoise and the hare
antagonist: the capital in the hunger games, jafar in Aladdin,
archetype: hero vs. villian, good vs evil
parable: the boy who cried wolf.
oxymoron: cruel kindness
Answer:
The adult children of the Yen family gather in Hong Kong after the death of their father, Joseph Yen. Throughout most of his life, Joseph Yen was a wealthy and successful businessman; thus, his children visit their father’s banker with the expectation of receiving considerable amounts of money from his will. The only absent child is Susan, Adeline’s stepsister who has been disinherited.
Their stepmother—whom they refer to as Niang, a Chinese term for mother—sits imposingly at the head of a long table. After the will executor hands out copies of the will, he explains that their mother “has requested you don’t turn the page for the time being” (2). When he reaches the bottom of the first page, the executor states, “‘I have been instructed by your mother, Mrs. Jeanne Yen, to tell you that there is no money in your father’s estate’” (3).
Niang yells at the children that their father “died penniless” (3), frightening them into submission despite their suspicions that Niang is not telling the full truth. They hand back their copies of the will without reading on, as instructed. Adeline explains that this behavior stems back to Niang’s treatment of them as children, which ingrained a “collective docility” (3) deep into their psyches.
Explanation:
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