Icarus's Flight Scavenger Hunt

What were Icarus and Daedalus looking for through their flight?

• Knowledge

• Power

• Freedom

• Lunch

What Icarus gained from his ill-fated flight.

• Power

• Freedom

• Death

• Knowledge

Why does the author use question marks throughout the poem?

• Because it's proper grammar.

• To make the reader stop and think.

• Because he wants the reader to answer the questions.

• Because they're rhetorical questions.

Read the following sentence:

He now had his answer, laws to uphold him in his downward plunge.

What is the connotation of the word plunge as used in that sentence?

• Positive

• Negative

• Neutral

Read the following sentence.

Would it have been better to flutter ignorantly from petal to petal within some garden forever?

What sound device was used for the underlined portions of the sentence?

• Rhyme

• Meter

• Alliteration

• Rhythm

The main unit of a poem.

• Line

• Stanza

• Meter

• Tone

A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.

• Meter

• Rhythm

• Tone

• Mood

This emphasizes the musical quality of a poem.

• Tone

• Meter

• Mood

• Alliteration

The writer's attitude towards a subject.

• Tone

• Mood

• Form

• Poetry

The poet begins a sentence at the end of a stanza and doesn't finish it until the first line of the next stanza (ex: lines 3-5).

Why does he do that? What does the structure look like?

Hint: Highlight the last sentence of each stanza and the first sentence of the next stanza. The highlighting will look like something relevant to the poem.

• To change the rhythm throughout the poem.

• To make the reader think about what's happening in each stanza.

• To maintain the flow of the poem and to create the feel of falling like Icarus did.

• To make the reader go back and read the previous stanza to understand the next one.