Poetry, Drama, and Prose Review

Choose the structural elements in which poetry is written.

• Poems are organized in complete sentences with paragraphs.

• Poems are organized in complete sentences with stanzas.

• Poems are organized in lines with paragraphs.

• Poems are organized in lines with stanzas.

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CCSS.RL.4.5

Poetry uses rhythm, repetition, meter, and rhyme that affect our sense of ___________.

• Sound

• Sight

• Taste

• Touch

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CCSS.RL.4.5

Name two elements of a drama that you DO NOT FIND in poetry OR prose.

• Script and Stage Directions

• Rhyme and Rhythm

• Stage Directions and Dialogue

• Rhyme and Script

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CCSS.RL.4.5

Groups of lines/verses in a poem are called ______________.

• Sentences

• Stanzas

• Stage Directions

• Lines

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CCSS.RL.4.5

Why might an author choose poetry rather than prose?

• the author wants the reader to act and say the lines

• the author wants to use rhyming words in paragraphs to describe objects

• the author uses fewer words, that may include sound, to express their ideas, which can be read aloud and made into a song

• the author wants to describe in detail with many words their story, which can only be read out loud

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CCSS.RL.4.5

The following is an example of which structural element of drama?

Narrator 1

Narrator 2

Big Bad Wolf

First Little Pig

Second Little Pig

Third Little Pig

• Setting

• Cast of Characters

• Stage Directions

• Lines

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.5

What is the meaning of dialogue?

• Conversations between characters in a text

• The internal monolgue of a character

• A struggle that takes place in a story

• The gestures an actor uses in a drama

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CCSS.L.4.4A

CCSS.RL.4.4

Read the following scene from the play, "The Necklace." In this scene, the dialogue between Mathilde and her husband is important because ____________________.

Narrator: One day, Mathilde's husband came home with a broad smile and a large envelope in his hand.

Husband: "Look! Here's something for you, dear."

(Mathilde eagerly tears open the envelope and reads it.)

Husband: "What do you think? Is it marvelous?"

Mathilde: "What's the use of this invitation to me? Without anything to wear, I can't go to the party! ...Pass the invitation on to someone whose wife is better dressed than I am!"

• Shows how unhappy both of them are and how little money they had to afford clothing to a fancy party.

• Mathilde's husband's happiness over being invited to the party in contrast to his wife's selfishness about her clothes.

• Both Mathilde's and her husband's excitement over getting invited to the party.

• None of the Above

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CCSS.RL.4.1

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CCSS.RL.4.3

Read the following lines from the prose, "A Friend Comes to Town." This prose is divided into 1 _________________.

"You're coming? You're actually coming?" Lucy exclaimed with a huge grin on her face as she read a handwritten letter that had just arrived in the mail. The thought of her best friend Jay coming to spend the weekend at her house was almost more than she could handle.

• sentence

• paragraph

• verse

• script

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CCSS.RL.4.5

Stage Directions are...

• Directions on how to get to the play
• The direction the audience faces
• The direction the actor faces
• Where things happen on stage

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CCSS.RL.4.5