Question

Drag the tiles to the boxes to form correct pairs. Walt Whitman's elegy "O Captain! My Captain!" contains an extended metaphor. Match the words or phrases from the poem with their meanings as part of the metaphor. Ship prize captain fearful trip the Civil War arrowRight victory arrowRight Abraham Lincoln arrowRight the Union arrowRight

Answer 1

context

inference

affixes

resources

looking up the meaning in a dictionary

arrowRight

guessing the meaning from what is already known

arrowRight

reading the sentences before and after the unknown word to guess the meaning

arrowRight

separating the root word and using prefixes and suffixes to understand the word’s meaning

arrowRight

your supposed to mach them right?

Answer 2

Ship - Union

Captain - Lincoln

Fearful trip - Civil War

prize - victory

Walt Whitman's elegy "O Captain! My Captain!" is an extended metaphor wherein the captain of the ship is Abraham Lincoln. The ship is the Union. The fearful trip the Captain undertakes is the Civil War and his prize at the end is victory. The poem begins with the speaker celebrating the victory that the captain has just won, eventually the speaker notices that the captain lies dead on the ship.