PART 1: Answer these questions about "The Man He Killed" in your LA#2 notebooks in COMPLETE SENTENCES.
1) Who is the speaker? What does he do for a living? What do you learn about him through his language?
2) What do these two men have in common?
3) Why is "because" repeated in lines 9 & 10? What does it say about the speaker?
4) How does the speaker feel about his enemy?
5) How does the speaker feel about war? What adjectives does he use to describe it?
6) How do YOU feel about this poem?
7) What rhyme scheme does it use? Is it in couplets? Is is iambic? Are its stanzas in quatrain form?
PART 2: Also, complete the 15 vocab words on the "How To" sheet that I gave you. The words are under the headings "Word Usage," "Meter" and "Rhyme." Look them up in the context of poetry! How do these words apply to poetry? Fill out the words on the sheet.
