OL HIGUE

THE OL HIGUE IS A

• HELPLESS OLD WOMAN WHO CHILDREN TEASE

• VAMPIRE

• WEREWOLF

• WOMAN WHO TURNS INTO A BALL OF FIRE AT NIGHT SO SHE CAN MURDER BABIES BY DRINKING THEIR BLOOD

• WOMAN WHO TURNS INTO A BALL OF FIRE AT NIGHT SO SHE CAN EAT RICE

You think I like this stupidness-

gallivanting all night without skin,

burning myself out like cane-fire

to frighten the foolish?

THE FOLLOWING IS AN EXAMPLE OF WHICH TWO DEVICES

• RHETORIAL QUESTION AND PERSONIFICATION

• RHETORIAL QUESTION AND ONOMATOPOIEA

• ALLITERATION AND SIMILE

• RHETORICAL QUESTION AND SIMILE

THE POEM OL HIGUE IS AN EXAMPLE OF A /AN

• EPIC

• ODE

• SONNET

• DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE

THE SPEAKER IN THE POEM IS

• A BABY

• A MOTHER

• AN OLD WOMAN

• AN OL HIGUE

Then again, if I didn't fly and come

to that fresh pulse in the middle of the night, how would you, mother,

name your ancient dread?

And who to blame

for the murder inside your head...?

Believe me -

As long as it have women giving birth

a poor ol' higue like me can never dead

HOW WOULD DESCRIBE THE SPEAKERS TONE IN THE VERSE ABOVE?

• CRITICAL

• POLITE

• CONFUSED

• SCARED

And if I could only stop

hearing the soft, soft call

of that pure blood running in new veins

• ALLITERATION

• ONOMATOPOEIA

• RHETORICAL QUESTION

• SIMILE

And don't even talk 'bout the pain of salt

and having to bend these old bones down

to count a thousand grains of rice! THE FOLLOWING LINES IS LINKED TO THE SENSE OF

• SMELL

• SIGHT

• TASTE

• HEARING

What words would you use to describe the tone of the speaker in the first verse of the poem?

• annoyed yet conversational

• jovial yet conversational

• petrified yet conversational

• embarrassed yet conversational

Then again, if I didn't fly and come

to that fresh pulse in the middle of the night, how would you, mother,

name your ancient dread?

And who to blame

for the murder inside your head...?

Believe me -

As long as it have women giving birth

a poor ol' higue like me can never dead

Identify 2 sets of words that rhyme from the verse above?

• head and dread

• birth and dead

• head and dead

• come and blame

What is the ol Higue greatest fear?

• mother's giving birth

• the dread inside the mother's head

• new born babies

• death because she is old and close to death