Short Answer Response Examples:
1. In the poem purpose of the poem Credo is to persuade the reader to live life to the fullest.
London creates a passionate tone and uses extended metaphors to achieve his purpose. For
example, he uses words/phrases like, “magnificent glow, brilliant blaze, and spark” to indicate
that he is passionate about living life to the fullest. Also, he uses an extended metaphor, “I’d
rather be ashes than dust”, to compare ashes to living full, active life; and he compares dust to
living a half-lived, meaningless life.
2. The author’s purpose is to persuade. He tries to convince you to live life to the fullest. On line 7
it reads, “The function of man is to live not exist.” Lines 8-9 also says, “I shall not waste my days
trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.” He also used metaphors to achieve his purpose.
The metaphor on line 4-6 “I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in a
magnificent glow, than a sleepy permanent planet.” – Mario T. 6th Period 4/4
3. The purpose of this poem is to inspire people to live their life to the fullest and not waste your
time being a dormant person. The author used metaphors and hyperboles to do this; examples
in line 4-6 he says, “I would rather that my spark burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be
stifled by dry-rot.” Meaning, he would rather live his life and have served his purpose than die a
lonely and boring life, which is an example of a metaphor. In line 4 he says, “I’d rather be a
superb meteor” which is a hyperbole. -Rashaad C. 2nd Period 3/4
4. The author’s purpose was to persuade you to live your life to the fullest. If you’re not doing fun,
exciting things, then you might as well not do anything. The tools he used were metaphors and
very detailed words (imagery) to get his meaning across. For example, he says phrases like,
“magnificent glow”, “spark”, and “superb meteor”. Those express the fact that he was very
detailed (imagery). Some things he used to show to live your life would be when he says things
like, “I shall use my time” and “The function of man is to live, not to exist”; those things show
that he wants to live like a dare devil. – Kat S. 2nd Period 4/4
5. The author’s purpose is to get people to not have a boring life and to live life to the fullest. The
author used extended metaphors and imagery to make his poem better and deeper. “I shall use
my time” means that he’s not going to waste his time and have fun with it. “The function of
man is to live, not to exist” he’s saying that if you just stay in your house and do nothing, you
just exist, you’re not living life. You’re there, but you’re not doing anything. If you go out and
do things not only do you exist, you’re living a full life. – Qwantea L. 3rd Period 3/4
6. I think the author’s purpose was to persuade the readers to make something out of their life and
to live life to the fullest. He achieved his purpose by using metaphors. In fact, the whole poem
was an extended metaphor. Some of examples of metaphors can be found on lines 3, 4, and 5.
–Jacob C. 4th 3/4