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Fable for Blackboard

Fable for Blackboard. By: George Starbuck. Fable for Blackboard. Here is the grackle, people. Here is the fox, folks. The grackle sits in the bracken. The fox 4 hopes. Here are the fronds, friends, that cover the fox. The fronds get in a frenzy. The grackle 8 looks.

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Fable for Blackboard

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  1. Fable for Blackboard By: George Starbuck

  2. Fable for Blackboard Here is the grackle, people. Here is the fox, folks. The grackle sits in the bracken. The fox 4 hopes. Here are the fronds, friends, that cover the fox. The fronds get in a frenzy. The grackle 8 looks. Here are the ticks, tykes, that live in the leaves, loves. The fox is confounded, 16 and God is above.

  3. First Stanza Here is the grackle, people. Here is the fox, folks. The grackle sits in the bracken. The fox hopes. Grackle

  4. Second Stanza Here are the fronds, friends, that cover the fox. The fronds get in a frenzy. The grackle looks. Frenzy – Out of control behavior Fronds – Large divided leaf Grackle – American blackbird Tyke –Wild dog Confounded – Confused Bracken – A tall fern with long fronds

  5. Third Stanza I put a picture of a wild dog because a wild dog is a tyke Here are the ticks, tykes, that live in the leaves, loves. The fox is confounded, and God is above. Put a picture of God because it represents “God is above.”

  6. Fable for Blackboard A B C D Structure 3 Stanza 4 lines per stanza 16 total lines Free Verse Repetition Personification Alliteration Here is the grackle, people. Here is the fox, folks. The grackle sits in the bracken. The fox hopes. Here are the fronds, friends, that cover the fox. The fronds get in a frenzy. The grackle looks. Here are the ticks, tykes, that live in the leaves, loves. The fox is confounded, and God is above. E F GH J K L M

  7. Elements of Poetry • Repetition– Grackle, fox, fronds • Personification – “The fox hopes.” • Alliteration – “Here are the ticks, tykes” & “that live in the leaves, loves.” • Free Verse – There is no rhyme scheme.

  8. Fable for Blackboard Literal That someone is showing the grackle off, and the fox. The fronds cover the fox. While the grackle is looking around. The fox is confused. They are showing off the grackle and the fox. Figurative That everything is not given to you. Here is the grackle, people. Here is the fox, folks. The grackle sits in the bracken. The fox hopes. Here are the fronds, friends, that cover the fox. The fronds get in a frenzy. The grackle looks. Here are the ticks, tykes, that live in the leaves, loves. The fox is confounded, and God is above.

  9. About the Poet Awards – • 1993 Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry • 1982 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, for The Argot Merchant Disaster: Poems New and Selected • 1960 Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition He had five children– • Margaret • Stephen • John • Anthony • Joshua

  10. By Elijah Ellis

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