The Fish part 1 by Elizabeth Bishop

Question 1

“I caught a _________ fish”

Answer 1

i caught a tremendous fish

Question 2

“and ___ him beside the ___”

Answer 2

“and held him beside the boat”

Question 3

“Half out of the _____, with my ____”

Answer 3

half out of the water, with my hook

Question 4

“___ in a corner of his ____”

Answer 4

“fast in a corner of his mouth”

Question 5

“he didn’t _____”

Answer 5

“he didn’t fight”

Question 6

“he hadn’t _____ at all”

Answer 6

“He hadn’t fought at all”

Question 7

“He ____ a grunting ____”

Answer 7

“He hung a grunting weight”

Question 8

“________ and venerable”

Answer 8

“battered and velnerable”

Question 9

“and homely. Here and ____”

Answer 9

“and homely. Here and there “

Question 10

“His ____ skin hung in _____”

Answer 10

“His brown skin hung in strips”

Question 11

“like ancient _________”

Answer 11

“like ancient wallpaper”

Question 12

“and its _______ of _______ brown”

Answer 12

“and its pattern of darker brown”

Question 13

“was like ______”

Answer 13

“was like wallpaper”

Question 14

“shapes like full-blown _____”

Answer 14

“Shapes like full-blown roses

Question 15

“_______ and lost through age”

Answer 15

“stained and lost through age”

Question 16

“He was speckled with ________”

Answer 16

“He was speckled with barnacles”

Question 17

“fine ________ of lime”

Answer 17

“Fine rosettes of lime”

Question 18

“and _______”

Answer 18

“and infested”

Question 19

“With tiny white ___-____”

Answer 19

“With tiny white sea-lice”

Question 20

“and __________ two or three”

Answer 20

And underneath two or three”

Question 21

“rags of green _____ hung down”

Answer 21

“Rags of green weed hung down”

Question 22

“While his ____ were ________ in”

Answer 22

While his gills were breathing in”

Question 23

“the terrible _______”

Answer 23

“the terrible oxygen”

Question 24

“-the ________ gills”

Answer 24

“-The frightening gills”

Question 25

“fresh and _____ with _____”

Answer 25

“fresh and crisp with blood”

Question 26

“that can cut so _____-“

Answer 26

“that can cut so badly-“

Question 27

“I thought of the ______ white flesh”

Answer 27

“I thought of the coarse white flesh”

Question 28

“______ in like feathers”

Answer 28

“packed in like feathers”

Question 29

“the big _____ and the little ______”

Answer 29

“the big bones and the little bones”

Question 30

“the ______ reds and blacks”

Answer 30

“the dramatic reds and blacks”

Question 31

“of his shiny ______”

Answer 31

“of his shiny entrails”

Question 32

“and the pink swim-______”

Answer 32

“and the pink swim-bladder”

Question 33

“like a big ______”

Answer 33

“like a big peony”

Question 34

“I looked into his ____”

Answer 34

“I looked into his eyes”

Question 35

“which were far _____ than ____”

Answer 35

“which were far larger than mine”

Question 36

Quote the first 5 lines of the poem

Answer 36

"I caught a tremendous fish
and held him beside the boat
half out of the water, with my hook
fast in a corner of his mouth.
He didn't fight."

Question 37

Quote the second 5 lines of the poem

Answer 37

"He hadn't fought at all.
He hung a grunting weight,
battered and venerable
and homely. here and there
his brown skin hung in strips"

Question 38

Quote the third 5 lines of the poem

Answer 38

"like ancient wallpaper, 
and its pattern of darker brown
was like wallpaper:
shades like full-blown roses
stained and lost through age."

Question 39

Quote the fourth 5 lines of the poem

Answer 39

"He was speckled with barnacles,
fine rosettes of lime,
and infested
with tiny white sea-lice,
and underneath two or three"

Question 40

Quote the fifth 5 lines of the poem

Answer 40

"rags of green weed hung down.
While his gills were breathing in 
the terrible oxygen
-the frightening gills,
fresh and crisp with blood,"

Question 41

Quote the sixth 5 lines of the poem

Answer 41

"that cut so badly-
I thought of the coarse white flesh
packed in like feathers,
the big bones and the little bones,
the dramatic reds and blacks"

Question 42

Quote the seventh 5 lines of the poem

Answer 42

"of his shiny entrails,
and the pink swim-bladder
like a big peony. 
I looked into his eyes
which were far larger than mine"

Question 43

Quote the full poem

Answer 43

"I caught a tremendous fish
and held him beside the boat
half out of the water, with my hook
fast in a corner of his mouth.
He didn't fight.
He hadn't fought at all.
He hung a grunting weight,
battered and venerable
and homely. here and there
his brown skin hung in strips
like ancient wallpaper, 
and its pattern of darker brown
was like wallpaper:
shades like full-blown roses
stained and lost through age.
He was speckled with barnacles,
fine rosettes of lime,
and infested
with tiny white sea-lice,
and underneath two or three
rags of green weed hung down.
While his gills were breathing in 
the terrible oxygen
-the frightening gills,
fresh and crisp with blood,
that cut so badly-
I thought of the coarse white flesh
packed in like feathers,
the big bones and the little bones,
the dramatic reds and blacks
of his shiny entrails,
and the pink swim-bladder
like a big peony. I looked into his eyes
which were far larger than mine"