Cervantes' Starfish

What is the subject of "Starfish?"

• Starfish
• The sea
• Life
• Death

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Who is the author of "Starfish?"

• Barbara Hurd
• Lauren Cornates
• Lorna Dee Cervantes
• Robert Frost

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CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.K.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

"They were lovely in the quartz and jasper sand" is an example of which rhetorical device?

• Alliteration
• Imagery
• Personification
• Enjambment 

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

"Lifelong liberation from the sea" is an example of what rhetorical device?

• Alliteration
• Assonance
• Repetition
• Enjambment

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

"Together: little martyrs, soldiers, artless suicides" is an example of what rhetorical device?

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Enjambment
• Rhythm

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Who is the speaker in "Starfish?"

• The poet
• The reader
• The starfish
• The detached narrator

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What is the intended audience of "Starfish?"

• Academic classrooms
• Universal audience
• Marine biologists
• Other poets

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CCSS.RL.11-12.11

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What is a stanza?

• A poem paragraph( lines separated by a break)
• A line in a poem
• Four lines that rhyme
• Lines that indicate the theme of the poem 

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CCSS.RL.11-12.11

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What is the connotation of the word "sprawled?" 

• Discarded
• Flailing
• Floundering
• Stretched 

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Which of the following is NOT a figure of speech?

• "As if they had created terrariums"
• "The sea polishes small stones"
• "Thousands of flawless, five-fingered specimens"
• "Miniature mussels"

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5