Henry David Thoreau: from "Walden" - Read

Question 1

reading

Answer 1

• figurative language
• metaphor: comparison (usually using is, am, are, was, were, will be, etc.)
• simile: comparison using like or as
• personification: giving human-like qualities to something that is not human

Question 2

in the passage below from section 6 of Walden, Thoreau is saying that
Sec 6- Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry

Answer 2

we are so concerned about not having something that we don’t enjoy it while we do have it

Question 3

according to Thoreau in Section 14 of Walden, one attraction he had in going to the woods to live was to

Answer 3

have leisure and opportunity to see the Spring come in

Question 4

in the underlined passage from Section 10 of Walden, Thoreau compares the shortness and limited nature of life (Time) to

Answer 4

fishing in a shallow stream with a thin current that slides away

Question 5

in the underlined passage from Section 4 of Walden, Thoreau is saying that

Answer 5

we shouldn’t waste away our lives with more details that we can count on our fingers and toes

Question 6

what figure of speech does Thoreau use in the underlined passage from Section 22 of Walden

Answer 6

simile or extended simile