ELA 8 Simile: Willow and Ginkgo / Introduction to Poetry

Lines 1–4 of “Simile: Willow and Ginkgo” reveal that the ---

• speaker is an artist

• plants look very different

• speaker dislikes both plants

The descriptions in lines 5–8 of “Simile: Willow and Ginkgo” help you visualize the trees by appealing to ---

• sight

• smell

• sound

The poet most likely includes a stanza break after line 12 in “Simile: Willow and Ginkgo” because the ---

• fourth stanza discusses only the willow

• fifth stanza discusses only the ginkgo

• fourth stanza is only one long sentence

Which excerpt from “Simile: Willow and Ginkgo” uses feminine ideas to help you visualize the willow?

• “like a nymph with streaming hair”

• “sleek as a velvet-nosed calf”

• “like an etching”

Lines 17–20 of “Simile: Willow and Ginkgo” emphasize the ---

• beauty of plants in nature

• strength of the ginkgo

• love children have for nature

In lines 1–4 of “Introduction to Poetry,” the speaker ---

• complains that people cannot understand poems

• suggests new approaches to reading a poem

• persuades “them” to read different poems

What does the poet compare to a poem in the metaphor in lines 9–11 of “Introduction to Poetry”?

• a body of water

• the author of a poem

• the shore of a body of water

There is most likely a stanza break at line 12 of “Introduction to Poetry” because the speaker begins ---

• remembering a frightening personal experience

• encouraging people to read poetry more often

• discussing how people typically read poetry

Which excerpt from “Introduction to Poetry” most helps you visualize the way “they” read poetry?

• “hold it up to the light”

• “watch him probe his way out”

• “begin beating it with a hose”

The speakers in both poems discuss something they ---

• lose

• love

• misunderstand