“Casey’s Daughter at the Bat”

Narrative ElementsNarrative Elements

Characters:

Setting:

Plot:

“Casey’s Daughter at the Bat”

Imagery:Imagery: Language that appeals to the senses, creates mental pictures, helps us to connect our real experiences with the poem.

1. What are the descriptive words or phrases?2. What emotions are evoked by these words?3. What message or idea can we draw?

Atmosphere or Mood:Atmosphere or Mood: the feeling created in the reader by a passage. Imagery is one element that helps create this feeling in the reader.

Analyzing Imagery

Line from the poem Sense it appeals to:

“ A sickly silence filled the air”

Sound/Sense of Hearing

Analyzing Imagery

Line from the poem Sense it appeals to:

Atmosphere or mood:

How does imagery help create this mood?

Meeting at Night

by Al Graham

The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the Mudvillettes, it seems;

The score stood four to two against that best of softball teams;

And when Brenda (“Lefty”) Cooney and “Babs” Barrows both flied out,

A sickly silence filled the air, and the fans began to pout.

A straggling few got up to go—’twas the ninth and two were down—

While the rest had little hope at all that the ‘Ettes would Go To Town;

Still, they thought if only Casey’s gal—Patricia—Patsy—Pat–

Could get a lick, they still might win with Casey at the bat.

But Myrna Flynn and Hedy Blake had to hit before Miss C; And the former was a sissy, and the latter just a she;So again upon a Mudville throng grim melancholy sat,For there seemed no chance whatever that Patricia’d get to bat.

But Myrna smacked a single, to the wonderment of all,And Hedy—known as Flatfoot—fairly flattened out the ball;And when the dust had lifted, there on third and second basePerched a pair of Mudville cuties, each a-powdering her face.

Then from the howling mamas in the stand in back of first

Went up a weird, unearthly scream, like a Tarzan crazed with thirst,

Like a million screeching monkey-fans, like a yowling giant cat;

For Casey, Patsy Casey, was advancing to the bat!

Mood/ Atmosphere:

Anticipation

Examples of imagery that convey this atmosphere:

(Anticipation): “sickly silence” “smacked a single”, “flattened out the ball”, “dust lifted”, “howling mamas”, “a million screeching monkey-fans”

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