Friday February 3, 2012. English 10. E. Hughes “What Do I Remember of the Evacuation” by Joy Kogawa

1. Explain what the “evacuation” referenced in this poem was: ______

2. What does the speaker remember her father telling her about before they left? line.3 ______and ______

3 What the speaker’s mother do to try to comfort her? lines.6,7.______.

2. Why did the speaker “pretend to fall asleep”? ______

3. Read lines 10-18. What punctuation is used to set out the information in these lines? ______

4. In general, how is this information in lines 10-18 different from what the reader learns in lines 1-9? ______

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5. List four specifically bad things the speaker recounts about “the evacuation”: a) ______b) ______c) ______d) ______

6. What is one word (adjective) you might use to describe Miss Foster and Miss Tucker ? ______Explain this choice: ______

7. What might be considered optimistic in the last four lines? ______

8. What is pessimistic about the last four lines? ______9. Enjambment is a line of verse that flows on into the next line without a pause.

Quote an example of Kogawa using enjambment in this poem: ______.

Explain the effect of this use of enjambment you have chosen: ______

10. Allusion is a reference to another event, person, place or work of literature

11. Record an instance of “allusion” in this poem: ______Explain the effect of this use of allusion here: ______

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12. What is the effect of the poet’s choice to begin several lines with the word, “And”? ______

13. What is the effect of the word “whispered” as it is used in line 17? What sort of feeling does this word create here?______

14. Find an example of repetition in this poem: which lines are repeated? ______

15. What is the effect of this example of repetition? ______