Handcuffs

The title can be seen as a

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

• Alliteration

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The title can mean:

(Choose two)

• Something that constrains you

• Feeling of imprisonment

• An imprisoned mind

• Being in jail

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

The setting of the poem is

• Johannesburg

• Apartheid

• KZN

• None of the above

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CCSS.RL.11-12.11

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

"Have steel fangs", is a

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"Have steel fangs" shows

• It is emotionally painful

• Handcuffs can bite

• The handcuffs are on tightly and hurt

• It is an idiom

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

"A whole battalion" is a

• A lot of insects

• A large body of troops

• A lot of humans

• A lot of pain

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

"Battalion of fleas" shows us

• Hyperbole, and how annoying it is

• Metaphor, that it is an attack

• Hyperbole, it is literal itch from war

• None of the answers

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

"Though" shows

• He feels he deserves it

• He wants to start a war

• A contradiction

• He wants to give up

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"Itch in my heart" is a

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"Itch in my heart grows, I cannot scratch" refers to

• The situation of Apartheid that bothers him and he feels like he cannot do much about it.

• He feels alone.

• He feels Apartheid has stripped him of his humanity.

• He has started a rebellion.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9