Poetry Checkpoint Review

Poetry Checkpoint Review

By Amanda Baehre

"If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking," By Emily Dickinson

1 If I can stop one heart from breaking,

2 I shall not live in vain:​

3 If I can ease one life the aching,

4 ​Or cool one pain,

5 Or help one fainting robin

6 Unto his nest again,

7 I shall not live in vain​

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Multiple Choice

What is the theme of this poem?

• Always help animals.

• Even if you only do one small good thing, it is still a good thing.

• Doing a good deed will always bring reward.

• If you are going to do something good, make sure someone else sees it.

Multiple Choice

What is the meaning of the phrase in vain in lines 2 and 7?

• excessively proud

• a device that tells the direction of the wind

• without success or result

• to obtain a prize

Multiple Choice

What is the literary device used in lines 2 and 7?

• Onomatopeia

• Alliteration

• Irony

• Repetition

Multiple Choice

What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?

• ABABCBB

• ABCBBDB

• AABBCCDD

• ABABCDB

"The Pasture" by Robert Frost

1 I'm going out to clean the pasture spring;

2 ​It'll only stop to rake the leaves away

3 (And wait to watch the water clear,, I may):

4 I shan't be gone long. You come too.

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5 I'm going out to fetch the little calf

6 That's standing by the mother. It's so young,

7 I​t totters when she licks it with her tongue.

8 I shan't be gone long. You come too​

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Multiple Choice

The purpose of the repetition in lines 4 and 8 is most likely to --

• deter the reader from following the speaker.

• highlight the speaker's demand for help with his chores.

• emphasize the speaker's invitation to the reader.

• explain why the speaker is going to the pasture.

Multiple Choice

The speaker's attitude toward nature is __________.

• affectionate

• hostile

• indifferent

• tolerant

Multiple Choice

Read the dictionary entry below.

spring /spriNG/ n 1. the season after winter and before summer 2. a place where water wells up from underground 3. a sudden jump forward 4. a metail coil

Which definition best matches the meaning of spring as it is uded in line 1?

• Definition 1

• Definition 2

• Definition 3

• Definition 4

"This is Just to Say" by William Carlos Williams

1 I have eaten

2 ​the plums

3 that were in

4 the icebox

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5 and which

6 you were probably

7 saving ​

8 for breakfast​

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9 Forgive me

10 they were delicious

11 so sweet

12 and so cold ​

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Multiple Choice

The tone of this poem is __________.

• Melodramatic

• Apologetic

• Solemn

• Angry

Multiple Choice

The imagery in lines 10 and 11 appeal to the reader's sense of ____________.

• Sight

• Touch

• Smell

• Taste

Multiple Choice

The poet includes stanza 3 most likely to --

• justify why the speaker ate plums

• show that the speaker forgave the reader

• clarify which plums the speaker ate.

• confess that the speaker had eaten the reader's breakfast

Multiple Choice

The poem's short line lengths emphasize the speaker's guilt by --

• showing that he is speaking quietly

• demonstrating his hesitation

• giving the poem a sing-song rhythm

• expressing his anger at himself for eating the plums