Poetry

What type of poem is "The Inventor Thinks Up Helicopters?"

• limerick
• free verse
• acrostic
• haiku

Read the following line from the "The Inventor Thinks Up Helicopters."
that swerves like a dragonfly
testing his steering, 

• similie
• onomatopeia
• metaphor
• personification

Reread the poem "The Inventor Thinks Up Helicopters."  To what is the poet comparing a helicopter?

• bugs
• pastures
• rugs
• spiders

How are all the poems ALIKE?

• They are all about flying machines.
• They are all about flying.
• They all include similes and metaphors.
• They all have similar rhyming patterns.

Reread these lines from the poem "Ornithopter".
But no matter the wind or the weather,
A pilot whose wings swing together

• repetition
• metaphor
• alliteration
• onomatopoeia

Which word means almost the SAME  as imagine?

• dream
• touch
• memorize
• hear

Which word means almost the SAME  as imagine?

• dream
• touch
• memorize
• hear

Which word rhymes  with forever?

• four
• always
• never
• sometime

What does the word bounce mean?

• to land on something softly
• to spring back after hitting something
• to move very slowly
• to toss back and forth in a small area

Free verse poems 

• do not rhyme
• have five lines
• start with the same letter
• are funny