Intro to Poetry

Multiple Choice

Which characteristic is NOT mentioned as part of poetry?

• Emphasis on musical qualities

• Use of condensed language

• Inclusion of visual art

• Intense feelings

Multiple Choice

According to the video, what aspect of poetry has evolved over time?

• its length

• its formatting

• its themes

• its relationship with other art forms

Multiple Choice

What was the result of Dartmouth researchers testing robots to write poetry?

• Robots succeeded 100% of the time

• Robots were indistinguishable from human poets

• Robots were caught every time

• Robots created better poetry than humans

​Decide whether the following quotes are from the famous poet Shakespeare or rap artists.

Multiple Choice

"To destroy the beauty from which one came"

• Rap

• Shakespeare

Multiple Choice

“Men would rather use their broken records than their bare hands”

• Rap

• Shakespeare

Multiple Choice

“I was not born under a rhyming planet”

• Rap

• Shakespeare

Multiple Choice

“The most benevolent king communicates through your dreams”

• Rap

• Shakespeare

Multiple Choice

"To lead the wild into the ways of the man /Follow me; eat my flesh, flesh and my flesh,"

• Rap

• Shakespeare

Fill in your vocabulary packet with the definitions in RED.

1. Circle an example of a stanza in the poem and label it with a squiggly arrow.

2. Circle an example of a line break in the poem and label it with a bold arrow.

3. Circle an example if a refrain in the poem and label it with a fancy arrow.

Multiple Choice

In books, text is organized by sentences and paragraphs. But in poetry, the text is organized by:

• lines and stanzas

• ballads and novels

• phrases and pages

• nothing

Multiple Choice

How many stanzas does this poem have?

Archery

It’s like touching without touching,

except when there is, also, touching.

We pull the bowstrings back

and parallel together,

aiming a handsbreadth higher

than we believe we intend,

and let the glove move where we draw the wire,

scared that the machinery

will misinterpret us,

that we may not stop trembling, that we may lose

our belief in ourselves

before anything is released, or shared, or sent.

• 5

• 2

• 4

• 3

Doodle images that rhyme to complete the couplet.

Select a letter from the alphabet. Then, write a couplet with alliteration using the letter you choose.

Multiple Choice

I cried, why? Why my life?

• onomatopoeia
• assonance
• consonance
• imagery

Multiple Choice

"Quit biting that tarp!" I told the spitting cat.

• alliteration
• assonance
• consonance
• refrain

Multiple Choice

Chilly chicken children shivered with goosebumps

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance

• Do chickens get goosebumps or chickenbumps?

Multiple Choice

Identify the sound device:
My wet shoes squished as I walked across the floor.

• alliteration
• assonance
• consonance
• onomatopoeia

Multiple Choice

Identify the sound device:
Do you like green eggs and ham?
I do not like them, Sam-I-am.
-Dr. Seuss

• end rhyme
• internal rhyme
• slant rhyme

Multiple Choice

Identify the sound device:

I'm being eaten by a boa constrictor

A boa constrictor

A boa constrictor

I'm being eaten by a boa constrictor

- Shel Silverstein

• rhythm

• rhyme

• repetition

• alliteration

Draw a symbol to represent each form.

​Draw a symbol to represent each form.

Choose an example of figurative language to illustrate on the empty book.

Multiple Choice

Old Marley was as dead as a door nail.

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

• understatement

Multiple Choice

Mr. Glotfelty is a big, fat baboon.

• alliteration

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

Multiple Choice

"I feel the ladder sway as the boughs bend.

And I keep hearing from the cellar bin

The rumbling sound

Of load on load of apples coming in."

In this stanza, there is a strong sense of

• hyperbole

• rhythm

• repetition

• imagery

Multiple Choice

Which literary device can be found in the sentence below.

The kindergarten teacher hoped that she did not have a class full of "Red Chiefs" this year.

• simile

• alliteration

• imagery

• allusion