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Question

Read the following stanzas from a poem entitled “Still I rise” by Maya Angelou and answer the questions that follow:

STILL I RISE You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I’ll rise. Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? ’Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells Pumping in my living room. Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I’ll rise.16

 Source: https://poets.org/poem/still-i-rise Accessed June 25, 2020.

4.1 I n your own words define the meaning of term rhyme. (2 marks)

4.2 Identify an example of rhyming words in the poem. (1 mark)

4.3 What do you think is the tone of the poem? (1 mark)

4.4 Do you think the title ‘Still I Rise’ is suitable for this poem? Provide a reason for your answer. (2 marks) 

Answer 1

4.1 I n your own words define the meaning of term rhyme. (2 marks)

Rhyme, is defined as two or more words with similar-sounding last syllables arranged in such a way that they repeat one another Poets and prose writers employ rhyme to create sounds that appeal to the reader's senses and to unite and establish a poem's stanza shape.

4.2 Identify an example of rhyming words in the poem. (1 mark)

Just like moons and like suns.

4.3 What do you think is the tone of the poem? (1 mark

The tone, on the other hand, is provocative and sardonic, not innocent. Even if she is questioning about it, she understands exactly why her oppressor is depressed. She’s ridiculing the poem's subject by emphasizing how sad her confident stroll must be for him. His persecution has no effect on her at all. She is ecstatic to be the "sassy" lady she is and will proudly strut in front of him.

4.4 Do you think the title ‘Still I Rise’ is suitable for this poem? Provide a reason for your answer. (2 marks)

The poem's title, “Still I Rise,” suggests that the poem's speaker is rising up despite or in response to challenging circumstances. ... The speaker of the poem is Black, which we learn in these two lines in the last stanza: Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave, and more so the words still rise have been repeated numerous time in the poem to depict the emphasis on the subject matter which is the tittle.