People and Places
Warren Pryor- by A. Nowlan
1. What work is done by Warren’s family? (1 mark)
Warren's family are farmers.
2. How did Warren represent their hopes and dreams? (1 mark)
Warren was educated and had potential to go beyond the farm to be come a banker, a well middle class job.
3. Explain the allusion used in the third stanza (see p. 215). What is the poem’s setting? (2 marks)
The third stanza when it says "their cups ran over" (line 9) is alluding to the Twenty-Third Psalm. This poem is set in New Brunswick, the "red dirt" (line 12) give it away
4. Identify the metaphor in the second stanza and the simile in the fourth stanza. (2 marks)
The metaphor in the second stanza would be "the slender scroll / his passport" (line 6-7), it is comparing graduation as a ticket to freedom off the farm. The simile in the fourth stanza would be "Hard and serious / like a young bear inside his teller's cage, " (line 13-14) compares his life and job to being in a cage, without liberty.
5. Explain the situational irony of “Warren Pryor. “ (2 marks)
The situational irony is that Warren's family gave up everything so he could go to school and get a good job. In the end Warren felt that he wasn't happy with his life even after everything that he could and had accomplished.
6. Create hyperlinks to online definitions for the terms allusion, metaphor, simile, and situational irony in the questions above. (2 marks)
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