What is the theme of a poem?
What do Emily Dickinson's poetry typically include? Select 4 options.
Read the opening lines of a poem.My room is a castleBecause my treasure’s here
Read the sentence.Digestion is divided into four parts, ingestion, digestion, absorption, and elimination.
Read the poem.Snowflakes cascadeMy yard is changed.A backyard reality is rearranged.Neglected bikes wear blankets of snow,Hopscotch lines cower and hide,The toys in the yard . . . lost until spring.
Read the excerpt from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.Juliet: If they do see thee, they will murder thee.Romeo: Alack, there lies more peril in thine eyeThan twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet,And I am proof against their enmity.Juliet: I would not for the world they saw thee here.Romeo: I have night's cloak to hide me from their sight;And but thou love me, let them find me here:My life were better ended by their hate,Than death prorogued, wanting of thy love
Read the lines from “Sea Fever” by John Masefield.I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by;
Read the excerpt from Ovid’s "Pyramus and Thisbe".Pyramus had lefta little later than his Thisbe had,and he could see what surely were the tracksof a wild beast left clearly on deep dust.His face grew ashen. And when he had foundthe bloodstained shawl, he cried: "Now this same nightwill see two lovers lose their lives: she wasthe one more worthy of long life: it's Iwho bear the guilt for this.
Which sentence includes an example of hyperbole?
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