Various Poetry Activity: Rhyme Scene, Stanzas, Figurative Languages

Hi, I need answers for all the following questions, please.

Directions:

1. Identify the rhyme scheme (write letters A,B,C etc. next to each line)

2. Count the stanzas.

3. Place a star next to any figurative language

4. What type of figurative language is each?

5. Draw a box around any words that show or describe the setting.

6. What is the poem about?

7. What is the author’s tone/mood? Explain

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Famous

By Naomi Shihab Nye

The river is famous to the fish.



The loud voice is famous to silence,

which knew it would inherit the earth

before anybody said so.



The cat sleeping on the fence is famous to the birds

watching him from the birdhouse.



The tear is famous, briefly, to the cheek.



The idea you carry close to your bosom

is famous to your bosom.



The boot is famous to the earth,

more famous than the dress shoe,

which is famous only to floors.



The bent photograph is famous to the one who carries it

and not at all famous to the one who is pictured.



I want to be famous to shuffling men

who smile while crossing streets,

sticky children in grocery lines,

famous as the one who smiled back.



I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous,

or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular,

but because it never forgot what it could do.