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Tone and Extended Metaphor — Homework
Read "O Captain! My Captain!" (Walt Whitman) aloud, noting where the tone shifts.
- 1.Identify the four main parts of the extended metaphor (ship, voyage, prize, captain) and what each stands for.
- 2.Quote or paraphrase one detail representing the external, celebratory tone, and one representing the speaker's internal grief.
- 3.Explain why Whitman might keep the celebratory details even after revealing the captain is dead, instead of removing them.
- 4.Write one full analytical sentence connecting a specific device from this poem to a specific effect on meaning.
- 5.Looking back across the whole poetry unit, write four or more sentences on which device you find easiest to spot in a new poem, and which is hardest, with reasons.
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