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Activity 11.
Closer Look
1. Look at the lists you made in the previous activities.
2. Is a figure of speech used in your first list? What figure of speech is it?
3. What about in your second list? What figure of speech is used, if any?
4. Can you categorize the words listed in your third list into figures of speech?
Deeper Look
1. Upon reading the word 'ambulance', what words or scenes did you associate it
with?
2. What do you think happened in the poem? Why was an ambulance present?
Was there an emergency? What word or phrase tells us this?
3. Was there a patient? Did the patients live or die? What word or phrase tells us
this?
4. What was the feeling of the onlookers? Were they happy or sad? What word or
phrase tells us this?
5. Can you point out the line that tells us the cause of death? What is the attitude
of the author toward death and its cause? What word or phrase gives us a clue
to this?
6. Have the figures of speech used helped you picture' the scenario described in
the poem? Explain
7. What is the poem about?