8. identify the poetic devices in use (simile, metaphor, alliteration, personification, onomatopoeia, assonance,
my father is a simple man
by luis omar salinas
i walk to town with my father
to buy a newspaper. he walks slower
than i do so i must slow up.
the street is filled with children.
we argue about the price
of pomegranates, i convince
him it is the fruit of scholars.
he has taken me on this journey
and it’s been lifelong.
he’s sure i’ll be healthy
so long as i eat more oranges
and tells me the orange
has seeds and so is perpetual;
and we too will come back
like the orange trees.
i ask him what he thinks
about death and he says
he will gladly face it when
it comes but won’t jump
out in front of a car.
i’d gladly give my life
for this man with a sixth
grade education, whose kindness

and patience are true . .
the truth of it is, he’s the scholar,
and when the bitter-hard reality
comes at me like a punishing
evil stranger, i can always
remember that here was a man
who was a worker and provider,
who learned the simple facts
in life and lived by them,
who held no pretense.
and when he leaves without
benefit of fanfare or applause
i shall have learned what little
there is about greatness.

family

my family lives inside a medicine chest:
dad is the super-size band aid, strong and powerful
but not always effective in a crisis.
mom is the middle-size tweezer,
which picks and pokes and pinches.
david is the single small aspirin on the third shelf,
sometimes ignored.
muffin, the sheep dog, is a round cotton ball, stained and dirty,
that pops off the shelf and bounces in my way as i open the door.
and i am the wood and glue which hold us all together with my love.

Plagiarism quiz read both the paragraph below and the information following it that identifies the source using the american psychological association format. then read each of the numbered statements and determine if each is plagiarized or not. circle “yes” if the statement is plagiarized, “no” if it is not, and then fix the “yes” answers). original source the presence of the taiwanese on everest was a matter of grave concern to most of the other expeditions on the mountain. there was a very real fear that the taiwanese would suffer a calamity that would compel other expeditions to come to their aid, risking further lives, to say nothing of jeopardizing the opportunity for other climbers to reach the summit. but the taiwanese were by no means the only group that seemed egregiously unqualified. camped beside us at base camp was a twenty-five-year-old norwegian climber named peter neby, who announced his intention to make a solo ascent of the southwest face, one of the peak’s most dangerous and technically demanding routes—despite the fact that his himalayan experience was limited to two ascents of neighboring island peak, a 20,274-foot bump that required little more than vigorous walking. krakauer, j. (1998). into thin air: a personal account of the mount everest disaster. new york: anchor books, 122 - 3. student samples yes 1. there was a very real fear that the taiwanese would suffer a calamity that would compel other expeditions to come to their aid(krakauer, 1998). no) 2. many climbers overestimate their abilities, as krakauer (1998) explains when he writes of peter neby, whose himalayan experience in the past “required little more than vigorous walking” (122 - 3). no 3. jon krakauer (1998) discusses other concerns besides those of unpredictable weather and his own climbing group’s capabilities. for example the existence of a taiwanese group on everest was a matter of serious unease to most everyone else on the mountain. yes/no 4. krakauer (1998) states that the taiwanese group was not the only inexpert climbers to attempt mt. everest: camped beside us at base camp was a twenty-five-year-old norwegian climber named peter neby. . [whose] himalayan experience was limited to two ascents of neighboring island peak, a 20,274-foot bump that required little more than vigorous walking (122 – 3). yes/no 5. the author asserts that the taiwanese “were by no means the only group that seemed egregiously unqualified.” yes/no 6. in his book into thin air, jon krakauer (1998) discusses many of the dangers he noted prior to his disastrous attempt to climb mt. everest in 1996. among them were encounters with other groups and individual climbers who were ill-trained and ill-equipped to handle the demands of such a climb.