Poerty

Poetry

Review

Multiple Choice

School

My homework is late

Dog ate it before breakfast

Very helpful dog

Which answer choice describes the form of the poem above?

• Narrative poem

• Haiku

• Concrete poem

• Lyric poem

Multiple Choice

Using the School Poem, which choice is the best clue to the poetic form in the poem above?

• The shape of the poem

• The lack of rhyming words in the poem

• The number of syllables in each line

• The number of words in each line

Multiple Choice

Which line of the poem is an example of alliteration?

1. Full fathom five thy father lies;

2. Of his bones are coral made;

3. Those are pearls that were his eyes;

4. Nothing of him that doth fade

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

Multiple Choice

After you were reading the stanza aloud, after which line should you not pause?

But doth suffer a sea change

Into something rich and strange.

Sea nymphs hourly ring his knell;

Ding-dong.

Hark! Now I hear them-Ding-dong bell.

• the first line

• the second line

• the third line

• the forth line

Multiple Choice

Which of the following lines contains an example of onomatopoeia?

• But doth suffer a sea change

• Sea nymphs hourly ring his knell

• Into something rich and strange.

• Hark! Now I hear them- Ding-dong bell.

Multiple Choice

What does the author's uses diction, or word choice, in the excerpt (pasage) reveal about his or her mother?

Oh, if instead she'd left to me

The thing she took into the grave!

That courage like a rock, which she

Has no more need of, and I have.

• The author thought the mother was mean.

• The author views the mother as a bad parent.

• The author views the mother as courageous.

• The author views the mother as fun.

Multiple Choice

What detail from the poem supports your conclusion about how the author views mother?

Oh, if instead she'd left to me

The thing she took into the grave!

That courage like a rock, which she

Has no more need of, and I have.

• Oh, if instead she left to me

• The thing she took into the grave

• That courage like a rock

• Has no more need of

Multiple Choice

Which line of the poem does not have an example of a metaphore?

The night is a big black cat

The moon is her topaz eye,

The stars are the mice she hunts at night,

in the fiels of the sultry sky.

By: G. Orr Clark

• Line 1

• Line 2

• Line 3

• Line 4

Multiple Choice

What object in J. Patrick Lewis's poem is personified?

Mister Sun wakes up at dawn,

Puts his golden slippers on,

Climbs the summer sky at noon,

Trading places with the moon.

• Golden Slippers

• The moon

• Mister Sun

• The summer sky

Multiple Choice

Which of the following lines from the poem contains an example of a rhyme?

The mouse ran up the clock.

The clock struck one,

The mouse ran down,

Hickory, dickory, dock.[1]

• Line 1

• Line 2

• Line 3

• Line 4

Multiple Choice

What conclusion can you draw about the speaker in the poem?

Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout

Would not take the garbage out!

She'd scour the pots and scrape the pans,

Candy the yams and spice the hams,

And though her daddy would scream and shout

She simply would not take the garbage out.

• The speaker thinks Sarah was lazy.

• The speaker hates taking out the garbage.

• The speaker thinks Sarah does a lot of chores but is stubborn when it comes to the garbage.

Multiple Choice

Which like of Nicole O'Neil's poem contains a simile?

A family is like a circle.

The connection never ends,

and even if at times it breaks,

in time it always mends.

• Line 1

• Line 2

• Line 3

• Line 4

Multiple Choice

To which sense does this poem most clearly appeal?

Suppose sweet candy has no taste,

That would be a total waste!

Sweet chocolate milk that tastes like water?

Won't be found on my order!

• Sense of sight

• Sense of hearing

• Sense of smell

• Snese of taste

Multiple Choice

From which type of poem does this stanza most likely come?

This is true love.

Yes, it’s plain to see.

Xbox, Xbox,

will you marry me?

• A lyric poem

• A concrete poem

• A haiku

• A ballad