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Poetry Stations Answer Sheet

Station #1: Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out by Shel
Silverstein pg. 582
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4. Personification:______________________________________________________________________________
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Station #2: I Ask My Mother to Sing by Li Young-Lee pg. 569
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4. Simile:
a. How does it affect the poem?
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Station #3: The Burning of Books pg. 628

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Why?:_________________________________________________________________________________________
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Why?:_________________________________________________________________________________________
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4. Poetic Device:_______________________________________________________________________
a. What it does to the poem:
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Station #4: Arithmetic by Carl Sandberg pg. 607

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