Not My Bones/From Fortune's Bones

What is the effect of the personification in lines 5–6 of “Not My Bones”?

  It provides a clue to readers that the speaker has died.

  It makes clear the movements of molecules in the body.

  It helps readers understand key ideas about molecules.

  It conveys the idea that people are more than their bodies.

• It provides a clue to readers that the speaker has died.

• It makes clear the movements of molecules in the body.

   

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    It helps readers understand key ideas about molecules.

   

•   It conveys the idea that people are more than their bodies.

In “Not My Bones,” the speaker most likely uses the word And in line 7 to emphasize that

• once death occurs, the body still lives on

• the body is sacred once death occurs

• the speaker no longer feels his body

• once the speaker dies, he is not his body

In the excerpt from Fortune’s Bones, which organizational pattern best describes the structure the author uses in paragraph 17?

Main idea and examples

Chronological order

Cause and effect

Problem and solution

• Main idea and examples

• Chronological Order

• Cause and Effect

• Problem and Solution

In “Not My Bones,” the poet’s use of figurative language helps to —

• show that the speaker has left the anguish of slavery behind

• illustrate that slavery was widespread before it was abolished

• show how enslaved people despised anyone who claimed to own them

• illustrate how people who owned slaves controlled those they enslaved

Which statement best explains how Fortune’s experience is depicted in the two selections?

• In the excerpt from Fortune’s Bones, Fortune doesn’t think about his own freedom, while in “Not My Bones,” the speaker only thinks about his own freedom.

• In the excerpt from Fortune’s Bones, Fortune escapes enslavement, while in “Not My Bones,” the speaker always remains enslaved.

• In both selections, Fortune finds a form of freedom.

• In both selections, Fortune never finds any freedom.