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Read the following poem and answer questions that follow. I had a dream last night. I dreamed. I had to pick a mother out. I had to pick...

      

Read the following poem and answer questions that follow.

I had a dream last night. I dreamed.
I had to pick a mother out.
I had to pick a father too.
At first, i wondered what to do,
There were so many there, is seemed,
Short and tall and thin and stout,
But just before I sprang awake,
I knew what parents i would take.
And this surprise and made me glad;
They were the ones i always had!

i)Explain how the poet achieves rhythm in the poem
ii)Which words would you stress in line 7 of this poem?
iii)How would you say the last line of this peom?
iv)You are performing this poem to your classmates. How would you know that they are not concentrating?

  

Answers


Davis
i)-Use of rhyming words
-Repetition of words
-Use of punctuation marks.
ii)Sprang awake
iii)They were the only ones i had.
iv)-whispering and murmuring at the background.
-Failure to maintain eye contact for a long time.
-Frequent intereference from the environment.
-Frequent requests of repetition that is if they continously request me to repeat something i had said earlier.
-If they fail to answer even the simplest question while i recite the poem.

Githiari answered the question on June 18, 2018 at 18:19


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