Read: Warren Pryor – A. Nowlan (Theme & Image Book 1. Page 13)
Answer in complete sentences:
1. What work is done by Warren’s family? (1 mark)
They are farmers in a field.
2. How did Warren represent their hopes and dreams? (1 mark)
He went a graduated and got a job like they wanted.
3. Explain the allusion used in the third stanza (see p. 215). What is the poem’s setting? (2 marks)
The allusion is "Their cups ran over" which is an allusion to the twenty third psalm.
The poems setting is probably New Brunswick because it says"its red dirt" and New Brunswick has red dirt.
4. Identify the metaphor in the second stanza and the simile in the fourth stanza. (2 marks)
The metaphor is " and lonely patience in a barren hole", and the simile is "like a young bear inside his teller's cage".
5. Explain the situational irony of “Warren Pryor. “ (2 marks)
The situational irony is that his parents thought that it would be best for him to go and graduate and get a job in the city, but Warren despised working in the city and he loved working in the fields.
6. Create hyperlinks to online definitions for the terms allusion, metaphor, simile, and situational irony in the questions above. (2 marks)
allusion:https://www.google.ca/search?q=allusion+definition&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&gws_rd=cr&ei=ApKXUseHI83poATA5oHIBA#q=allusion+definition&rls=org.mozilla:en-US%3Aofficial&safe=off
metaphor: https://www.google.ca/search?q=allusion+definition&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&gws_rd=cr&ei=ApKXUseHI83poATA5oHIBA#q=metaphor+definition&rls=org.mozilla:en-US%3Aofficial&safe=off
simile: https://www.google.ca/search?q=allusion+definition&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&gws_rd=cr&ei=ApKXUseHI83poATA5oHIBA#q=simile+definition&rls=org.mozilla:en-US%3Aofficial&safe=off
situational irony: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/situational+irony
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