Be Glad Your Nose is on Your Face

Theme

• Be thankful for what you have
• Poet tells reader to be thankful their nose is on their face
• Explains what a person would deal with if their nose wasn't on their face

Speaker

• Jack Prelutsky
• These are his thoughts
• His opinions on why the nose should be on your face

Metaphors

• Within your ear, your nose would be an absolute catastrophe, (M)
• Imagine if your precious nose were sandwiched in between your toes, that clearly would not be a treat, (M)

Tone

• Fun and upbeat
• Most people do not worry about their nose being anywhere but their face
• Written for children

Imagery

• you’d be forced to smell your feet (smell)
• forever tickled by your hair (touch)
• Picturing your nose places that it isn't (sight)

Symbols

• for when you were obliged to sneeze, your brain would rattle from the breeze.
• Sneezing represents a storm that would be able to rattle things, which a sneeze does not normally do

Personification

• your brain would rattle from the breeze.
• it soon would drive you to despair,

Rhyme Scheme

• A, A,B, B, C, C, D, D, E, E, F, F, G, G, H, H, I, I, A, A

Secondary Source

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9I1yLrVq2os

By: Sam, Matt, and Thuressa