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Mooses
Mooses
Answer the following (based on the above given text and the poem)
1. In the poem, is the moose:
[ ] being hunted?
[ ] lost?
2. Find three verbs that suggest the clumsy movement of the moose.
a.
b.
c.
4. Find a phrase that suggests the moose is very large and heavy.
a.
b.
[ ] running away?
5. Why does the writer use lots of d sounds in the lines Hopeless drops drip from his droopy
lips and Two dopes of the deep woods?
6. What are the massy bony thoughts sticking out near his ears?
7. Does the poem make you feel sorry for the moose? Why?
8. A symbol is a person, place, or thing that stands for something other than itself. What might
the moose in "Mooses" symbolize? Think about the way he is described and the attitude he
expresses in the poem. Explain your answer.
9. Compare the situation of the moose with that of the snow-shoe hare.
The plural of moose remains moose albeit meese or mooses are correct, but old
usages.