STAAR Reading Poetry

Tuesday, April 9, 2023​

Multiple Choice

What is a Stanza?

• Giving human characteristics to non-human things

• A comparison using the words like or as

• A line

• A group of lines. Looks like a paragraph.

Multiple Choice

What is a Line in poetry?

• A group of lines similar to a paragraph

• A row of words

• The voice narrating the poem

Multiple Choice

Who is the Speaker in a poem?

• The playwright

• The voice narrating the poem

• William Shakespear

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an example of a Simile?

• She has cheeks as red as roses

• The flowers cried for water

• It felt like it took a million years to finish my homework

• My dog is a little thief; he steals all of my socks.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an example of a Metaphor?

• She has cheeks as red as roses

• The flowers cried for water

• It felt like it took a million years to finish my homework

• My dog is a little thief; he steals all of my socks.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an example of Personification?

• The flowers cried for water

• She has cheeks as red as roses

• It felt like it took a million years to finish my homework

• My dog is a little thief; he steals all of my socks.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an example of a Hyperbole?

• She has cheeks as red as roses

• It felt like it took a million years to finish my homework

• The flowers cried for water

• My dog is a little thief; he steals all of my socks.

Match

Match the following words with their definitions

• Mood

• Voice

• Tone

The feeling you get from the poem

The personality of the speaker

The speaker's attitude toward a subject

• The feeling you get from the poem

• The personality of the speaker

• The speaker's attitude toward a subject

Multiple Choice

Read the sentence from the paragraph.

Their strengths and weakness fit together like puzzle pieces that were meant to complete a picture.

The author uses the simile in this sentence to show that Beth and Joann's -

• taste in bard games is similar

• personalities compliment each other

• fondness of puzzles is shared

• love toward each other is evident

Multiple Choice

Read this sentence.

Slowly the yellow wave creeps in, leaving an increasingly thicker dropping of dust until it crescendoes into a tsunami engulfing all that dare to cross its path.

The author uses the figurative language in this sentence to convey -

• an image of pollen heavily crashing onto surfaces like an ocean wave

• how thick the pollen becomes as it covers everything

• a sense of ocean-scented air

• an understanding of the ill-health effects caused by pollen

Multiple Choice

The author's use of personification in line 3 helps the reader imagine -

• red and gold autumn dresses

• the vibrant colors of the autumn leaves

• the playful relationship between the autumn and summer

• the changes that take place in the landscape throughout the four seasons

Multiple Choice

Read this sentence from the paragraph.

Instead, the ball flirted with the audience, danced around the rim of the basketball hoop, almost flaring outward, but compensated with an inward twirl.

The author uses personification to suggest -

• the movement of the ball indicated an uncertain outcome

• the ball literally had a mind of its own

• the audience looked forward to an end-of-game dance performance

• Sheila purposefully put a spin on the ball to keep the audience in suspense

Multiple Choice

Read lines 2-6. What does the poet's use of imagery in these lines emphasize?

• There are observable differences in the types of trees.

• Trees serve different purposes in nature.

• All trees serve a very similar purpose.

• Some trees provide timber that is useful in construction.