The Way He Swings His Sledgehammer Is Similar to How the Sexton Rings the Bell for Church

1. Describe the Village Blacksmith. What adjectives would you use to describe him?
   hard worker, kind, dedicated
   
2. What does the simile “swing his heavy sledge like a sexton ringing the village bell” mean?
   

The way he swings his sledgehammer is similar to how the sexton rings the bell for church (in a hard and strong way)

1. What type of figurative language is used the most in “The Village Blacksmith”? Write an example of it?
   Simile: “And the muscles of his brawny arms are strong as iron bands.”

“ And catch the burning sparks that fly like chaff from a threshing floor. “

1. What does the line “Toiling—rejoicing—sorrowing” represent?
   The emotions the blacksmith goes through during his day…Toiling means he works hard, rejoicing means feeling happy and sorrowing being sad.
   
2. Explain lines 41-42 in “The Village Blacksmith”.
   

Something attempted, something done has earned a night’s repose means that when you work hard all day and you try something new and get it done, at night you feel relaxed and you get a good night’s rest.

1. What is the theme of “The Village Blacksmith”?
   No matter what obstacles life throws at you, you have to move and appreciate what you have
   
2. Why does Sarah Cynthia finally take the garbage out?
   

All her neighbors moved away and her friends would not come to play with her

1. How does this poem end?
   

Sara Cynthia met an awful fate which means something bad happened to her.

1. What is the theme of “Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout”?
   

Small decisions can have many large consequences.

1. What is the tone of this poem?

humorous

1. What are the hyperboles used in this poem? Write them down.
   “the garbage reached across the state, from New York to the Golden Gate”

“the garbage reached so high that finally it touched the sky”

1. Identify the images that appeal to your senses from both poems.
   Sense of sight—sparks of fire, crisp black hair

Sense of hearing---and hear the bellows roar,

Sense of taste-sour cottage cheese

1. Know how to write rhyme schemes.

1. Vocabulary for “The Village Blacksmith”-Write the definitions:

Smithy-the workshop of a blacksmith

crisp–closely curled and wiry

sledge–sledgehammer-heavy hammer

bellows–a device for quickening the fire by blowing air on it

sinewy-strong and tough

sexton-church official who rings the bell

1. Know the following poetry elements and types of poems:
2. Consonance: repetition of identical or similar consonants
3. Haiku: one image, seventeen syllable Japanese poem
4. Internal rhyme:rhyme that takes place inside a line of poetry
5. Denotation: dictionary definition
6. Free verse: poetry that does not rhyme
7. Simile: comparison of two things using like or as
8. Sonnet: a poem that consists of 14 lines Shakespeare
9. Personification:using human qualities to describe nonhuman objects
10. Hyperbole:an exaggeration used for emphasis
11. Stanza:a group of lines that form one section of a poem
12. End rhyme:rhyme that takes place at the end of a poetry
13. Symbol: something that stands for or represents another thing
14. Prose: writing that does not follow any poetic pattern-conversations
15. Connotation:an emotional or social association with a word it could be positive or negative