3 - Unit B: Poetry "Haiku Journey"

Multiple Choice

Both similes and metaphors ________.

• compare things

• use the words "like" and "as"

• are ways words can rhyme in a poem

• make a story less vivid

Multiple Choice

A metaphor is a figure of speech that ________.

• uses the words “like” or “as” but doesn’t compare things

• compares things without using the words “like” or “as”

• gives a nonhuman thing human traits

• uses a word that sounds like what it means

Multiple Choice

Which of the following sentences contains a simile?

• The thunder was loud.

• The thunder boomed and rumbled.

• The thunder growled, and the windows shook.

• The thunder growled like a group of grizzly bears.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following sentences contains a metaphor?

• The boy was upset at himself.

• The boy was a tornado of emotion.

• The boy said he’d die of shame.

• The boy did not like what he’d done.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following sentences contains personification?

• The spiderwebs stuck to my skin.

• The floorboards moaned and groaned beneath me.

• A wind blew, and a door opened with a creak

• Slowly and stealthily, I slipped inside.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following sentences contains personification?

• The spiderwebs stuck to my skin.

• The floorboards moaned and groaned beneath me.

• A wind blew, and a door opened with a creak

• Slowly and stealthily, I slipped inside.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following sentences contains personification?

• The forest slept on and in her silent slumber.

• All around us, the air was still.

• High above the trees, the sky was a white blanket.

• We heard nothing, not even the early-morning chirps of birds.

Multiple Choice

SOUND DEVICES create a specific sound effect (harsh or pleasing) in order to emphasize the poem’s overall meaning.

• True
• False

Multiple Choice

The repetition of CONSONANT sounds at the BEGINNINGS of words.

• alliteration
• onomatopoeia
• consonance
• assonance

Multiple Choice

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

• alliteration
• assonance
• consonance
• onomatopoeia

Multiple Choice

Poetry usually has a regular beat.  This beat is called the…

• rhythm
• alliteration
• assonance
• consonance

Multiple Choice

A stanza is a…….

• Group of syllables.

• Group of lines.

• Group of words.

• Rhyme scheme.

Multiple Choice

What is the rhyme scheme (pattern)?

Whose woods these are I think I know.

His house is in the village though;

He will not see me stopping here

To watch his woods fill up with snow.

-Robert Frost

• ABAB

• ABCB

• AABA

• ABBA

Multiple Choice

How  is  poetry  written?  (structure)

• a)  Sentences & paragraphs
• b)  Sentences 
• c)  Lines & paragraphs
• d)  Lines & stanzas

Multiple Choice

True or False: All poems must rhyme.

• True
• False

Multiple Choice

In what country did haiku originate?

• USA
• China
• Japan
• India

Multiple Choice

How many lines does a haiku have?

• 5
• 3
• 2
• 1

Multiple Choice

What is a syllable?

• a word

• a sentence

• the sound(s) of a word

• the sound(s) of a sentence

Multiple Choice

Most Haiku poems are inspired by _____________

• Costumes

• Nature

• School

• T-Shirts

Open Ended

What do you notice about the poem?

Open Ended

What in the poem stood out to you?

Poll

How confident do you feel about this topic now?

• Very confident
• Somewhat confident
• Not confident