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Song of the Vagabond Tomato
This task is about making inferences from a poem.
Read the poem
Song of the Vagabond Tomato
by Fiona Farrell (
School Journal, Part 2, No. 4, 1993
) and look at the illustration. Then answer the questions below.
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a) What is the meaning of the word "vagabond" from the title of the poem and line 20?
A brand of tomatoes
A careless character
A wandering rascal
A scruffy character
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b) What does the tomato mean when he says, "I feel no remorse?" [line 6]
b) What does the tomato mean when he says, "I feel no remorse?" [line 6]
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c) Why do the tomatoes talked about in this poem end up costing only "fifty cents a kilogram"? [line 12]
c) Why do the tomatoes talked about in this poem end up costing only "fifty cents a kilogram"? [line 12]
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d) When the tomato says, "No, no!" what is he talking about? [line 13]
d) When the tomato says, "No, no!" what is he talking about? [line 13]
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e) What word is "'neath" short for? [line 16]
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f) What do the dots at the end of line 20 show?
f) What do the dots at the end of line 20 show?