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Empathy Poetry Review

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  • What is the overall theme of the passage?
    It’s important to understand what others go through in life.
  • What point of view is the poem written?
    1st person
  • What is the definition of an onomatopoeia?
    A word that sounds like its meaning
  • How many stanzas are in the poem?
    seven
  • Give an example of an onomatopoeia.
    Boom, bang, swish, sizzle
  • What can you infer about the speaker of the poem based off of stanza 6?
    They are willing to make a change in themselves.
  • What is a hyperbole?
    A wild exaggeration
  • What is the rhyme scheme of stanza 6?
    AABB
  • What is the definition of personification?
    Giving human traits to nonhuman things
  • My old car let out a cough as it started. Type of figurative language?
    personification
  • What is the subject of the poem?
    empathy
  • What is the definition of a simile?
    A comparison of two unlike things using like or as
  • How is the poem organized?
    In quatrains
  • How does stanza 3 contribute to the overall meaning of the poem?
    It demonstrates how the speaker wants to make connections with others.
  • What does it mean to be empathetic?
    To understand other's feelings (usually because you've experienced a similar situation)
  • What type of figurative language is " Empathy is a gift that we can all give?"
    metaphor