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    The document summarizes and analyzes elements of several poems: - "We Real Cool" employs an aabcdded rhyme scheme and sarcastic tone to portray teenage rebellion. - "Dreams" uses metaphors like "life is a broken-winged bird" to represent endeavor. It has an iambic trimeter pattern. - A haiku is provided about being cool through wearing shades. - A tanka uses imagery of closing eyes and darkness to represent dream representation.

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    The document summarizes and analyzes elements of several poems: - "We Real Cool" employs an aabcdded rhyme scheme and sarcastic tone to portray teenage rebellion. - "Dreams" uses metaphors like "life is a broken-winged bird" to represent endeavor. It has an iambic trimeter pattern. - A haiku is provided about being cool through wearing shades. - A tanka uses imagery of closing eyes and darkness to represent dream representation.

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    The document summarizes and analyzes elements of several poems: - "We Real Cool" employs an aabcdded rhyme scheme and sarcastic tone to portray teenage rebellion. - "Dreams" uses metaphors like "life is a broken-winged bird" to represent endeavor. It has an iambic trimeter pattern. - A haiku is provided about being cool through wearing shades. - A tanka uses imagery of closing eyes and darkness to represent dream representation.

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    a) Identify the speaker, dictation and tone used in We Real Cool A young boy/ student Informal diction Sarcastic

    tone

    b) What type of rhyme scheme is employed by Brookes in We Real Cool? Give examples to support your answer. Rhyme scheme is aabcdded , end rhyme of words, cool-school-latestraight-sin-gin-June-soon. c) Identify the figurative language used in Dreams and give examples from the poem to support your answer. Metaphor a figure of speech in which two unlike objects are implicity compared without the use of like or as. Examples- 1) Life is a broken-winged bird 2) Life is a barren field d) Identify the metrical pattern found in Dreams. - Iambic trimeter e) What do you think is the theme found in i) We Real Cool theme-rebel of teenager ii) Dreams-theme endeavour

    f) Haiku about being cool. Putting my shades on, Walking calmly like a stud, Every eye glancing.

    g) Tanka about dream representation. as I close my eyes eyes heavily open as darkness haunted my body which the thing turning round and round makes me dizzy.

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