Odes

Multiple Choice

Why do poets write odes?

• To explain important current events to their readers.

• To praise an object, person, or event.

• To profess their love to someone.

• To imitate Shakespeare's great works.

Multiple Choice

What are the characteristics of ode poems?

• They are usually humorous

• They praise something

• They are written in free verse

• They are always short

Multiple Choice

What is the historical significance of ode poems?

• They originated in ancient Greece

• They were first written by Shakespeare

• They are a form of modern poetry

• They are only written in English

Open Ended

What makes it an ode poem?

Multiple Choice

Which line from the poem shows the tortoise is changing from being helpless to surviving on its own?

• “You know what it is to be born alone,”

• “To take your first solitary bite”

• “No one ever heard you complain.”

• “Under its slow lid, tiny baby tortoise,”

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