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E. Formative Evaluation

Part I

Read the poem written by Robert Blair below.
Then, answer the following questions.

Sketch

By Carl Sandburg

The shadows of the ships
Rock on the crest
In the low blue lustre
Of the tardy and the soft inrolling tide.

A long brown bar at the dip of the sky
Puts an arm of sand in the span of salt.

The lucid and endless wrinkles
Draw in, lapse and withdraw.
Wavelets crumble and white spent bubbles
Wash on the floor of the beach.

Rocking on the crest
In the low blue lustre
Are the shadows of the ships.

1. What is the poem about?
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2. Identify an example of personification: explain what is being personified how.
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3. Identify an example of hyperbole: explain how it is exaggerated.
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4. Identify an example of metaphor: explain which two things are being compared.
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5. Where is repetition used in this poem? Why do you think that it is used this way?
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6. What action is described in the third stanza of the poem?

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7. How is imagery used in this poem? What is described?

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8. What is the mood of this poem? How does it make you feel?
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SMA MUHAMMADIYAH 1 YOGYAKARTA BAHASA INGGRIS KELAS XI SEMESTER 1
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