The Fish Study Guide

Study Guide for “The Fish” page 266

1. What is a simile? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
2. What does the writer compare the fish’s skin to in lines 10-11? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
3. What is the simile in line 14? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
4. The writer says the flesh of the fish is packed like what in lines 27-28? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
5. What is the simile in lines 32-33? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
6. What does the writer compare the five broken fish lines to in lines 61-62? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
7. What kind of person wears the medals and ribbons in lines 61-62? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
8. Does the writer admire the fish? What words in the poem make you think she does or does not admire the fish? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
9. Why does the writer throw the fish back? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
10. What does the writer compare “victory” to in lines 66-70? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

11. What is an allusion? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
12. What is the allusion in lines 69 and 75? What is it alluding to? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
13. What does a rainbow make you think of? Why does the writer use the word “rainbow” four times near the end of the poem? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________