Unit 1 Review

What does the word vivid mean?

• very bright

• distant

What does the word torn mean?

• cut

• undecided

What does the word devoured mean?

• destroyed carelessly

• swallowed greedily

What does the word flushed mean?

• turned red

• cleared up

What does the word draft mean?

• a current of air

• a wall of smoke

What does the word assumed mean?

• suspected

• pretended

Which phrases from the poem is an example of personification?

• so I could keep my word

• the camera played a trick

• I looked like I was sick

• my mother made sure to say

Which rhyme scheme, if any, is used in the first stanza of this poem?

• the lines are unrhyming

• only the odd lines rhyme

• every other line rhyme.

• each pair of lines rhymes

What is the purpose of repeating the words Pit, Pat, and Splat in the last line of this poem?

• to copy the sounds of a dog barking

• to help the reader learn the pets' names

• to teach the reader how to play chase

• to copy the sounds of a game of chase

This myth was made up long ago to explain

• why seeds should never be eaten.

• why mothers are sometimes sad.

• why plants grow in the spring.

• why flowers should not be picked.