Weather poems

Which of the following is an example of personification?

• While the wind whines overhead

• a spider eases himself down from a swaying light bulb

• A swan-like form invests the hidden thorn

• A cat runs from the wind as we do

In the poem The Storm, which line best shows that the author was outside before the storm began?

• We creep to our bed, and its straw mattress.

• The waves not yet high, but even, coming closer and closer upon each other

• Bending the trees half-way down to the ground

• water roars into the cistern

In the poem The Storm, which of the following lines explains the time of day?

• And the small street-lamp swinging and slamming against the lamp pole

• flicking the foam from the whitecaps straight upward into the darkness

• The last watcher indoors, moving the card players closer to their cards

• Shaking loose the last wizened oranges in the orchard

Which line in The Storm best shows the author is nervous?

• Coming down from the mountain, Whistling between the arbors, the winding terraces

• Riddling the sand, like a wide spray of buckshot

• And our breath comes more easy

• Breathing heavily, hoping-

In the poem The Snow Storm, the poem is told from whose point of view?

• The courier

• the mason

• the farmer

• the architect

In the poem The Snow Storm, which line best shows what it looks like outdoors?

• Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer curves his white bastions with projected roof round every windward stake, or tree, or door.

• Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, arrives the snow

• the housemates sit around the radiant fireplace, enclosed in a tumultuous privacy of storm

• And when his hours are numbered, and the world is all his own, retiring, as he were not, leaves, when the sun appears.

Which best describes why Emerson refers to the snow storm as architecture?

• An architect announces their arrival using trumpets, similar to the first line

• The farmhouse is covered in snow

• snow is used to build igloos

• Everything looks like it is made of snow

Both poems have all of the following in common except:

• They are about storms

• the authors use metaphors, similes and personification

• the last line causes the reader to ponder the meaning

• imagery is used to engage the audience

Both poems are organized the following way

• compare and contrast

• each stanza discusses a different topic

• as a narrative from beginning to end

• using a rhyming pattern

What does the word ominous mean?

• threatening

• loud

• wet

• peaceful