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“Legacies”
The answers to the following questions can all be found on pages 79-81. Please work with a partner of
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your choosing to answers the questions using complete sentences. Your grade is dependent on the
depth of your responses and your ability to show me your thinking on paper.
Terminology (4 points each)
1.Please define what irony is in your own words. Give an example of an ironic situation or how irony
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2. Please define free verse. Search through the poem “Legacies” and give two examples of how poet
Nikki Giovanni used free verse in her poem.____________________________________________
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3. What is a legacy? Think about your family, what is a legacy that has been passed down to you?
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Comprehension (5 points each)
4. After reading the About the Author section, please “read in between the lines” to make connections
as to why the poets background may make this poem have a deeper meaning.
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2. Comprehension Cont.
5. Why doesn’t the girl in the poem want to learn? Use a specific line from the poem or reference a
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6. Make an inference (to come to a conclusion or form an opinion about something on the basis of evidence
or reasoning), what is one thing the grandmother may be thinking but not saying? What is one thing the
granddaughter may be thinking but not saying? What from the poem makes you think these two things?
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