<p>Friday February 3, 2012. English 10. E. Hughes “What Do I Remember of the Evacuation” by Joy Kogawa</p><p>1. Explain what the “evacuation” referenced in this poem was: ______</p><p>2. What does the speaker remember her father telling her about before they left? line.3 ______and ______</p><p>3 What the speaker’s mother do to try to comfort her? lines.6,7.______.</p><p>2. Why did the speaker “pretend to fall asleep”? ______</p><p>3. Read lines 10-18. What punctuation is used to set out the information in these lines? ______</p><p>4. In general, how is this information in lines 10-18 different from what the reader learns in lines 1-9? ______</p><p>______</p><p>5. List four specifically bad things the speaker recounts about “the evacuation”: a) ______b) ______c) ______d) ______</p><p>6. What is one word (adjective) you might use to describe Miss Foster and Miss Tucker ? ______Explain this choice: ______</p><p>7. What might be considered optimistic in the last four lines? ______</p><p>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. </p><p>Quote an example of Kogawa using enjambment in this poem: ______.</p><p>Explain the effect of this use of enjambment you have chosen: ______</p><p>10. Allusion is a reference to another event, person, place or work of literature</p><p>11. Record an instance of “allusion” in this poem: ______Explain the effect of this use of allusion here: ______</p><p>______</p><p>12. What is the effect of the poet’s choice to begin several lines with the word, “And”? ______</p><p>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?______</p><p>14. Find an example of repetition in this poem: which lines are repeated? ______</p><p>15. What is the effect of this example of repetition? ______</p>