If by Rudyard Kipling

Choose one stanza that supports the idea that it is important to accept failure and move on.

• If you can keep your head when all about you

  Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,

  If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

  But make allowance for their doubting too;

  If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

  Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,

  Or being hated don't give way to hating,

  And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

• If you can make one heap of all your winnings

  And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

  And lose, and start again at your beginnings

  And never breathe a word about your loss;

  If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

  To serve your turn long after they are gone,

  And so hold on when there is nothing in you

  Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

• If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

  Or walk with Kings -nor lose the common touch,

  If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

  If all men count with you, but none too much;

  If you can fill the unforgiving minute

  With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,

  And -which is more -you'll be a Man, my son!

Does this stanza describe positive qualities or or does this stanza describe the positive results of having positive qualities or BOTH?

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with Kings -nor lose the common touch,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,

And -which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

• Describes positive qualities

• Describes the result of having positive qualities

Choose the lines from the poem that support your answer from the previous question.

• If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; If you can think - and not make

  thoughts your aim, If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

  And treat those two impostors just the same;

• If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

  And treat those two impostors just the same;

  If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken

  Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

• Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,

  And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

  If you can make one heap of all your winnings

  And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

• If you can make one heap of all your winnings

  And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

  And lose, and start again at your beginnings

  And never breathe a word about your loss;

Does this stanza describe positive qualities or or does this stanza describe the positive results of having positive qualities or BOTH?

• describes positive qualities

• describes the positive results of having positive qualities

The world is ours only when...

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,

Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,

And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

• You do not waste time

• You tolerate people

• You practice good morals and not be arrogant

• You are honest and forgiving

• All of the above

If you can dream -and not make dreams your master. What does he mean by this?

• Dreams are good to have so don't allow them to slip away.

• Dreams are evil so be careful about following them

• It is good to have dreams, but not let your dreams control you.

• Dreams are your master.

How many stanzas does the poem "If" have?

• Two

• Three

• Four

• Five

What type of poem is "If" by Rudyard Kipling?

• Acrostic

• Limerick

• Didactic

• Diamante

How many times has the word "if" been used in the poem?

• 10 times

• 12 times

• 13 times

• 15 times

Who is Kipling addressing in this poem?

• All of his friends

• His family

• Only his son/men in general

• All of us