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Practice Exercise 17 A, B
Limericks
- Use the reading process to guide you in your reading the following
limerick.
- 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
| Princeton
Tiger |
There was
a young lady named Ruth,
Who had a great passion for truth,
She said
she would die
Before she would lie,
And she died in the prime of her youth. |
| Ogden Nash |
- Answer the questions.
- What is the rhyme scheme for this limerick?
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- Define irony in your own words.
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- Explain the irony in this poem.
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