Comparing Prose, Drama, and Poems Small Groups

Comparing Prose, Drama, and Poems Small Groups

Directions: Read the text “A Friend Comes to Town” and answer the following questions.

Multiple Choice

This text is an example of:

• Poetry

• Drama

• Prose

Multiple Choice

This text has four________.

• paragraphs

• stanzas

• lines

• All of the above.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of prose, but is a characteristic of poetry?

• Rhythm

• Sentences

• paragraphs

• All of the above.

Multiple Choice

What makes this selection drama?

• It gives facts about farming.

• It is written in paragraphs

• It has many lines that rhyme.

• There are stage directions.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following describes 2 characteristics of drama that you do NOT find in poetry or prose?

• Cast of Characters and rhythm

• Stage directions and a script

• Characters and a script

• A script and rhyming

Multiple Choice

If the author wanted to change this script into a poem, which of the following would happen?

• The names of the characters rhyme along with the sentences.

• The cast of characters would not be listed and the stage directions would be removed.

• The stage directions would be removed and there would be song lyrics that rhymed added.

Multiple Choice

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

FIRST ACT

SCENE Morning-room in Algernon’s flat in Half-Moon Street. The room is luxuriously and artistically furnished. The sound of a piano is heard in the adjoining room.

[Lane is arranging afternoon tea on the table, and after the music has ceased, Algernon enters.]

Algernon. Did you hear what I was playing, Lane?

Lane. I didn’t think it polite to listen, sir.

Algernon. I’m sorry for that, for your sake. I don’t play accurately—any one can play accurately—but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.

Lane. Yes, sir.

Algernon. And, speaking of the science of Life, have you got the cucumber sandwiches cut for Lady Bracknell?

What sentence from the passage best shows that this is a play?

• The room is luxuriously and artistically furnished.

• [ Lane is arranging afternoon tea on the table, and after the music has ceased, Algernon enters.]

• Did you hear what I was playing, Lane?

• And, speaking of the science of Life, have you got the cucumber sandwiches cut for Lady Bracknell?

Multiple Choice

Read the following scene from the play, "The Necklace." In this scene, the dialogue between Mathilde and her husband is important because ____________________.

Narrator: One day, Mathilde's husband came home with a broad smile and a large envelope in his hand.

Husband: "Look! Here's something for you, dear."

(Mathilde eagerly tears open the envelope and reads it.)

Husband: "What do you think? Is it marvelous?"

Mathilde: "What's the use of this invitation to me? Without anything to wear, I can't go to the party! ...Pass the invitation on to someone whose wife is better dressed than I am!"

• Shows how unhappy both of them are and how little money they had to afford clothing to a fancy party.

• Mathilde's husband's happiness over being invited to the party in contrast to his wife's selfishness about her clothes.

• Both Mathilde's and her husband's excitement over getting invited to the party.

• None of the Above

Multiple Choice

Which of the statements below BEST describes why the script provided this stage direction in line 3?

1 Narrator: Pecos Bill was the smartest, toughest cowboy who ever lived. This is the story of Pecos and the great tornado.

2 Pecos Bill: (hollering loudly) This ain't nothing! I can take care of that little old storm!

3 The townspeople: (Looking frightened) Let's hide! Pecos come with us!

4. Pecos: Go on! I will get rid of this pest! (He gets his 25 foot long rattlesnake and throws it around the tornado. It lifts him up in the air.)

• to let the audience know that Pecos is brave

• to let the audience know what is happening as Pecos gets rid of the tornado

• to let the audience know the townspeople are scared of the tornado

• to let the audience know that the tornado is coming and the townspeople are cheering

Multiple Choice

How many stanzas does this poem have? (*remember: stanza is the word poets use for a paragraph!)

• 2

• 4

• 24

• 6

Multiple Choice

Each stanza has 6 ___________________.

• words

• sentences

• paragraphs

• lines

Multiple Choice

How can you tell if this poem has rhythm?

• If you look at the poem and it is in stanzas.

• If when you read it you can keep a steady beat of the stressed and unstressed syllables

• If when you read it you can make the end words rhyme.

Multiple Choice

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

"My Shadow" by Robert Louis Stevenson

I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me,

And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.

He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head;

And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed.

The funniest thing about him is the way he likes to grow—

Not at all like proper children, which is always very slow;

For he sometimes shoots up taller like an india-rubber ball,

And he sometimes gets so little that there's none of him at all.

He hasn't got a notion of how children ought to play,

And can only make a fool of me in every sort of way.

He stays so close beside me, he's a coward you can see;

I'd think shame to stick to nursie as that shadow sticks to me!

One morning, very early, before the sun was up,

I rose and found the shining dew on every buttercup;

But my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head,

Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.

What best describes what kind of writing this is and why?

• It is a play because it has different characters in it.

• It is a story because it has a beginning, middle, and end.

• It is a poem because it is split up into lines, verses, and stanzas.

• It is an article because it presents information.

Multiple Choice

Read the prose and poem below about Kasper and Carl being locked in prison. How do both versions give information about this event?

The Escape (poem)

Two strong and brave men were locked in a cell

For fighting the Prince and his menacing men.

Once man was injured, the other stayed well,

But both swore they'd rise up and do it again.

The well man, he picked at the lock of the door,

And then faced a choice - leave his sick friend behind?

The well man, he knew that would lead ever more

To making a cage of his own guilty mind.

The Escape (prose)

I picked at the lock of the prison cell I shared with Kasper. I almost had it, I was sure. We didn't have much time before the prince's guards returned to drag the two of us before Prince Robert.

• In the poem, both men are in prison with one sick and the other well. The prose describes more details by giving the men's names and where Carl and Kasper are.

• In the poem, the men's names are given, and it explains the men are in Prince Robert's prison. The prose describes the men only by being sick or well and in prison.