Hayes won acclaim for his complex and ingenious poem titled "The Golden Shovel." Each line of Hayes' poem ends with language fro
m "The Pool Players. Seven at the Golden Shovel" by Gwendolyn Brooks.
How does the excerpt from "Introduction to Found Poetry" illustrate the idea that found poetry is created from other texts?
Question 1 options:
It explains that acrostic poems may contain hidden messages.
It describes how a Golden Shovel poem uses language from an existing poem.
It defines how acrostic poetry is a variation of cento poetry.
It focuses on an important poet, Terrance Hayes, who popularized Golden Shovel poems.
Question 2 (1 point)
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Read the excerpt from "Introduction to Found Poetry."
An erasure poem is like a photo-negative of a blackout poem. The redacted text is not blackened but erased, clipped out, or obscured beneath white-out, pencil, gouache paint, colored marker, sticky notes or stamps. Often the shading is translucent, leaving some words slightly visible. The diminished language becomes a poignant subtext to the remaining words.
Erasure poetry is both a literary and a visual art. The poet engages in a dialogue with a found text, adding sketches, photographs and handwritten notations. American poet Mary Ruefle, who has created nearly 50 book-length erasures, argues that each is an original work and should not be classified as found poetry.
"I certainly didn't 'find' any of these pages," Ruefle wrote in an essay about her process. "I made them in my head, just as I do my other work."
How does the excerpt from "Introduction to Found Poetry" illustrate the idea that found poetry is everywhere?
Question 2 options:
It describes how words are obscured rather than fully removed.
It includes a poet's perspective that erasure poetry should be considered original works and not found poetry.
It provides examples of different sources of erasure poems that remove words from any existing text.
It explains how erasure poetry is also a visual art.
Question 3 (1 point)
Read the excerpt from "Mowgli's Brothers."
A black shadow dropped down into the circle. It was Bagheera the Black Panther, inky black all over, but with the panther markings showing up in certain lights like the pattern of watered silk. Everybody knew Bagheera, and nobody cared to cross his path, for he was as cunning as Tabaqui, as bold as the wild buffalo, and as reckless as the wounded elephant. But he had a voice as soft as wild honey dripping from a tree, and a skin softer than down.
Which words from the excerpt best create a fearful tone?
Question 3 options:
cunning, bold, reckless
dripping, cross, inky
wild, wounded, down
shadow, dropped, markings
Question 4 (1 point)
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Read the excerpt from "Tears of Autumn."
She was thin and small, her dark eyes shadowed in her pale face, her black hair piled high in a pompadour that seemed too heavy for so slight a woman. She clung to the moist rail and breathed the damp salt air deep into her lungs. Her body seemed leaden and lifeless, as though it were simply the vehicle transporting her soul to a strange new life, and she longed with childlike intensity to be home again in Oka Village.
Which words from the excerpt best create an uneasy tone?
Question 4 options:
thin, small, pale
heavy, leaden, shadowed
childlike, clung, longed
slight, lifeless, dark
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In the short story "All Summer in a Day," what does the rain symbolize?
Question 5 options:
rebirth
happiness
indifference
sameness
Question 6 (1 point)
In the short story, "All Summer in a Day," what does the sun symbolize?
Question 6 options:
risk
pressure
hope
home
Question 7 (1 point)
Read the excerpt from "Borderbus."
