Read the lines from The Elements of San Joaquín. And tears the onions raise Do not begin in your eyes but in ours, In the salt blown From one blister into another; Which statement is a theme in this excerpt?
Read the lines from The Elements of San Joaquín. When autumn rains flatten sycamore leaves, The tiny volcanos of dirt Ants raised around their holes, I should be out of work. My silverware and stack of plates will go unused Like the old, my two good slacks Will smother under a growth of lint And smell of the old dust That rises When the closet door opens or closes. The skin of my belly will tighten like a belt And there will be no reason for pockets. Which statement is a theme in this excerpt?
Read the lines from The Elements of San Joaquín. When the season ends, And the onions are unplugged from their sleep, We won’t forget what you failed to see, And nothing will heal Under the rain’s broken fingers. Which statement is a theme in this excerpt?
Read the lines from The Elements of San Joaquín. The sky went black in the ninth hour of rolling trays, And in the distance ropes of rain dropped to pull me From the thick harvest that was not mine. Which statement is a theme in this excerpt?
Read the lines from The Elements of San Joaquín. The wind strokes The skulls and spines of cattle To white dust, to nothing, Covers the spiked tracks of beetles, Of tumbleweed, of sparrows That pecked the ground for insects. Which line shows figurative language?
Read the lines from The Elements of San Joaquín. In Fresno the fog is passing The young thief prying a window screen, Graying my hair that falls And goes unfound, my fingerprints Slowly growing a fur of dust— Which word in these lines has a negative connotation?
Read the lines from The Elements of San Joaquín. When you got up this morning the sun Blazed an hour in the sky, A lizard hid Under the curled leaves of manzanita And winked its dark lids. Later, the sky grayed, And the cold wind you breathed Was moving under your skin and already far From the small hives of your lungs. The issue in this excerpt is the
Read the lines from The Elements of San Joaquín. When the season ends, And the onions are unplugged from their sleep, We won’t forget what you failed to see, And nothing will heal Under the rain’s broken fingers. How do these lines reflect the theme that the lack of concern shown by most Americans is harmful to the seasonal workers’ lives?
Read the lines from The Elements of San Joaquín. A little later the stars spread with the night And an orange moon rises To lead them, like a shepherd, toward dawn. Which poetic element is used in these lines?
Read the lines from The Elements of San Joaquín. In Fresno the fog is passing The young thief prying a window screen, Graying my hair that falls And goes unfound, my fingerprints Slowly growing a fur of dust— One hundred years from now There should be no reason to believe I lived. Which statement is a theme in this excerpt?
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