DCP #4 Review

What is personification?

• Comparing two unlike things using the words like or as

• Comparing two unlike things without using the words like or as

• Creating a vivid imagery by using sensory language

• Giving a nonliving thing human like characteristics

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

A stanza is -

• The rhythm of a poem

• A group of lines in a poem

• The message of a poem

• The characteristics of a poem

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

The poplar is a restless tree.

At every breeze its branches bend

And signal to the child, “Come, friend.”

Its leaves forever whispering

To thrush and robin, “Stay and sing.”

They pass. It quivers plaintively.

The poet uses personification in this stanza to describe the poplar's attempt to -

• attract visitors

• remain active

• provide directions to others

• resist being moved by the wind

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.5

Mood is -

• the feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader

• the attitude the author has toward a subject

• how the author is feeling

• how the narrator is feeling toward the subject

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

The poplar is a lonely tree.

It has no branches spreading wide

Where birds may sing or squirrels hide.

It throws no shadows on the grass

Tempting the wayfarers who pass

To stop and sit there quietly.

Line 1 is important to the poem because it helps -

• introduce a familiar setting

• describe the speaker

• create imagery

• establish the mood

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

The poplar sees each neighbor tree

Loved by the birds. The oriole

Swings from the elm its home; the bole

Of that rough oak, above, around,

Hears the woodpecker’s rapid sound

As on he works industriously.

In this stanza, the poplar is described mainly as -

• cautious

• envious

• curious

• arrogant

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

What is sensory language?

• language that uses similes

• language that uses metaphors

• language that creates a vivid image by connecting the reader to one of the five senses

• language that uses similes and metaphors

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Read this sentence from paragraph 4

And he would explain it to me, and though I couldn’t really understand, still I would feel something, a cool fizzing behind my ears, because I was feeding off his astonishment.

The sensory language in this sentence highlights the narrator's -

• optimism

• confusion

• excitement

• discomfort

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

Read this paragraph

He always had a jawbreaker in his mouth, and when he wasn’t clacking it against his teeth he kept up a constant mutter about everything he did, as if he were a play-by-play announcer describing a game. “And now Jim is soldering the wire to the whatsits. . . ."

What does the simile in this paragraph suggest about Jim?

• he wishes he knew someone who shared his passion

• he approaches his work with intense focus

• he is interested in both science and sports

• he usually makes up experiments as they occur to him

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Which of the following is another word or phrase for theme?

• lesson

• message

• important idea

• what the author wants you to learn

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9