Rime of The Ancient Geezer Packet Answers

The Rime of the Ancient Geezer
Comprehensive Questions
Close Reading Questions
1. An induction ceremony is the formal process of inducting a member into a

group/club/organization, etc.
2. According to the passage, a man must attend the Admission to Geezerdom Ritual on the first full
moon, 6 months after turning 60.
3. The last years of life are the “Sunset Years”. It is a euphemism for old age.
4. Sanskrit is an ancient language, which shows how old the word “geez” is. The etymology of the
word shows its old age, just like the meaning of the word itself.
5. Britannia is an old term for Great Britain.
6. The author says that the word geezer was first used by Chaucer, an English poet, by the
character Knyghte.
7. A knyghte is a knight, spoken in Middle English.
8. The knyghte visits his father who “does truly bore his son when he comes and goes.”
9. The Oxford English Dictionary is the “official” dictionary of the English language, that is very old
(a geezer book!) and long (it geezes you). It is the most accurate and most commonly used
dictionary.
10. King Lear is one of William Shakespeare’s most successful and famous plays. It is considered one
of his greatest works.
11. A jester is a clown that works for a person of power in the Middle Ages, hired to bring jokes and
entertainment.
12. I think “nunkily” means to be like an uncle or family member.
13. I think the phrase “newly minted geezer” is to be recently starting to age, and to have been
recently ‘inducted’ as a geezer, as in a ‘new’ old person. This is an oxymoron.
14. Ogling means to stare in a crude or sexual way, and leering means to look at something while
indicating a sly intent. He relates this to another definition of the word ‘geez’, and that you are
only geezing a woman if you ogle and leer at her at an age over 60.
15. The author’s birthday prompted him to think of himself as a ‘geezer’. Once the author was
ogling and leering at a woman, his friend said “stop geezing that bimbo!”
16. In paragraph 7, the author explained that Chaucher was geezing people in his quote “doth verily
geez hys sonne whan he cometh and whan he goeth”. The author then realizes that while he is
explaining the word’s etymology, he is also geezing the reader.
17. The narrator draws examples from Chaucer and Shakespeare to depict the age of the word geez
and to create irony, because these examples may bore a younger audience, thus geezing the
reader while studying the word geez.
18. The author uses consonance in paragraph 8, as the ‘z’ sound is in both “schmooze” and “geeze”.
Z’s are also related to sleeping, something a geezer does quite a lot.
19. The author uses the word ‘responsibility’ to enunciate the fact that geezers are adult figures and
are fathers, if not grandfathers. This also shows a typical father-son relationship, where the
father is ruling over the son and helping him grow into a man.
20. In the last sentence, the author incorporates two meanings of the word geez. The first meaning
is in geezing the young neighbor trying to fix his lawnmower; this associates with the meaning
“to correct younger people, incessantly.” The second meaning is in geezing the pretty young
wife, which associates with the meaning “schmooze.”
Questions for Analysis
1. Verisimilitude is shown in the passage when the author talks about how he has gone through
the Admission to Geezerdom. In actuality, no such thing exists. There is no “induction
ceremony”, as he stated. He also says “on the first full moon six months after he turns 60,” a
man will officially become a geezer. This is not true, although the author succeeds at writing it to
sound legitimate.
2. The title of the article suggests that the article is referencing and is based off of the “Rime of the
Ancient Mariner” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It suggests that the plot or storyline may be
loosely based off of the “Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” It also suggests that it will inform the
reader of the etymology of the word geezer. When the author states that the ceremony is on a
full moon, this alludes to the connotation that full moons make you crazy, loony (derived from
the word lunar), such as werewolves. When the author defines one of the word geez’s meanings
as “to smile disgustingly while chewing guava”, this alludes to the fact that guava is grown in
Florida, and Florida has many retirement homes. This also relates to how soft guava is, which
allows old people (who sometimes don’t have teeth or have dentures) to chew this fruit.
Paragraph Questions
1. The two independent clauses are “younger people may not know this” and “every man is
required to attend the Admission to Geezerdom Ritual.”
2. The dependent clause is “but on the first full moon six months after he turns 60”. This provides
more detail to the next sentence and answers when the ritual occurs.
3. This is a complex-compound sentence.
4. This is an infinitive phrase. It functions as the infinitive general statement of attending the
Geezerdom Ritual. The infinitive verb is “to attend”.
5. This is a gerund phrase. ‘Welcoming’ functions as the gerund subject, the act of being welcomed
into the sunset years while they are attending the ritual.
6. “The odd thing is that though I am, officially, a geezer, I don’t feel much different than I did in
earlier years.”
7. “While riding the bus, I thought of how hungry I was, although I wasn’t hungry five minutes
before.”
8. After the word include, the colon begins the list of the definitions.
9. The author uses gerund phrases in his list.
10. Parentheses enclose less important sentences, such as the definitions of the word geez, and
separate the definitions from the list of the verbs.
11. The quotation marks in the sentence describe a particular event, example or dialogue, as a
quote.
12. “It also has a history as an adjective (‘The geezy lawyer fussed over his client’) and as an adverb
(‘Santa spoke geezily to his elves.’)”
13. I found two meanings to the word fly: to go on an airplane (“I hated flying”), and to soar (“Time
flies.”)
Tone Questions
1. The writer uses colloquialism and informality in his diction to help the reader relate. He also
displays the use of irony in his allusions and overall composition, while also portraying that he is
a smart old man. He also describes the qualities and traits of a geezer.
2. The writer uses imagery to allow the reader to envision his situation, and to better understand
the word geez and its various definitions. It also shows how much he knows about the Geezer
Ritual, improving his verisimilitude.
3. The writer uses details to help the reader understand the etymology and different meanings of
the word through examples, while also providing a sense of humor and personal voice to the
article.
4. The writer uses informal language to create a sense of voice in the passage, while also being
informative, portraying that what he is saying in the article is true, and showing verisimilitude.
His general use of language shows his intelligence.
5. The use of detail and sentence structure helps the reader understand the etymology of the word
‘geez’ and the varied sentence lengths allow the passage to be more ‘readable’. It conveys that
the author is intelligent, and not, in fact, a ‘geezer’.
6. The element of syntax and language in the article are most important, as the article itself is
about the different ways of using the word ‘geez’. It creates a sense of flow throughout the
article that makes it easy and understandable, keeping the reader hooked.
7. The tone of the article is comical, ironic, and lighthearted.

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