Practice Exercise 15 A, B
Narrative Poetry
- The first part and the last part of a long narrative poem follows.
Use the reading process to guide you in your reading.
- Skim the title and poem quickly.
- Predict what the poem is about.
- Think of questions to answer while you read.
- Read the poem twice aloud without stopping.
- Read the poem again carefully.
- Answer the questions.
- Write a complete definition for each word as it is used in the poem.
- snarled
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- rueful
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- spilling
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- ether
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- affairs
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