EOC Boot Camp Poetry

What is the rhyme scheme of lines 1-6 of the poem?

• abbacc
• ababcd
• aabbcc
• ababab

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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

The phrase "Toward heaven still" in line 2 can best be described as--

• a literal description
• an extended metaphor
• an iambic foot
• a biblical or mythological allusion

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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

Read these lines from the poem:
"I cannot rub the strangeness from my sight
I got from looking through a pane of glass
I skimmed this morning from the drinking trough
And held against the world of hoary grass."
The word hoary means "turned gray or white with old age." Why does the speaker use this word to describe the grass?

• The speaker is dreaming and thinks the lawn is the beard of an old man.
• The grass looks silvery because it is covered in morning frost.
• The lawn has died, turning from green to a grayish brown.
• The speaker realizes that the grass is ready for haying.

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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

Sensory images make the speaker's experience vivid. To which senses does the poem appeal in line 18-26?

• Hearing, taste, sight
• Taste, hearing ,smell
• Touch, smell
• Sight, touch, hearing

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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

The speaker of the poem is -

• pleased at the results of his hard work
• disappointed that his hard work did not pay off with a larger harvest
• weary from achieving the goal he once desired
• worried because so much of his harvest was damaged.

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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

Which quotation can best be described as conveying the idea of freedom?

• thirty thousand sword-/fish will never near a ship
• elephant herds live/long elephant lives
• Through vast canyons, horses run
• the few birds at my feeder watch the window

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CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

In the first 12 lines, the poet uses imagery to describe-

• a world apart from human culture
• a hostile environment of predators and prey
• an ancient pre-human landscape
• a community of anthropomorphic animals

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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

In line 14, it is significant to the theme of the poem that the birds are at the feeds because this shows that they are-

• migratory animals
• dependent on humans
• symbols of freedom
• resistant to change

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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

In lines 1 through 4, the tiger is a symbol for the speaker's-

• love of wildlife in its natural habitat
• fear of facing mortality
• belief in realities beyond the reach of experience or proof
• desire to excape the confines and complexities of modern urban life

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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

In the last three lines, the tone of the poem shifts from- 

• strident to optimistic
• bleak to playful
• objective to moralistic
• hopeful to apprehensive

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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