
Poetry STAAR Review 2019
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English
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7th Grade
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Hard
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BJ Biley
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
In line 1, the poet refers to the snowfall as a "revolution of snow" in order to suggest that -
something has been taken from him by the snow
everything is confused and dangerous
the snow completely overturned the normal world on this day
the snow has permanently changed the world as he knows it
Tags
CCSS.RL.7.10
CCSS.RL.7.4
CCSS.RL.7.5
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.8.5
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Read lines 2-3 below.
"its white flag waving over everything, the landscape vanished,"
The poet uses a metaphor to show that the snow -
has covered everything completely and made the world surrender to it.
is fluttering in the breeze like a white flag waving over a white field.
has caused the world outside to disappear, and the poet can’t see
anything.
has left only a flag on a pole sticking out of the snow.
Tags
CCSS.RL.7.10
CCSS.RL.7.4
CCSS.RL.7.5
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.8.5
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Read line 13.
"and the dog will porpoise through the drifts"
The poet uses a metaphor to show that the dog -
knows how to swim like a porpoise.
turns into a different creature.
jumps, lunges, and wiggles through the snow.
plays in snow that is soft and turning into water.
Tags
CCSS.RL.6.4
CCSS.RL.7.10
CCSS.RL.7.4
CCSS.RL.7.5
CCSS.RL.8.5
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Read lines 16–17.
"But for now I am a willing prisoner in this house,
a sympathizer with the anarchic cause of snow"
In these lines, the word cause means —
reason something happens.
purpose; effort centered on a goal.
a change that occurs suddenly.
a situation that arouses sympathy.
Tags
CCSS.RI.7.4
CCSS.RI.8.4
CCSS.RL.6.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
CCSS.RL.8.4
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The poet mentions the names of the schools that closed to suggest that the speaker is —
pleased, because the snow has freed children to play outside.
worried, because the children might be hurt walking home in the snow.
relieved, because now he knows where the children had been hiding.
sad, because he realizes he is no longer a child.
Tags
CCSS.RL.6.4
CCSS.RL.7.10
CCSS.RL.7.4
CCSS.RL.7.5
CCSS.RL.8.10
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Because the poem is written from the point of view of someone in the snowstorm, the reader is better able to understand —
what the world looked like as it started to snow and how it gradually changed
how the snow has changed the speaker’s view of the world and created new mysteries
why the schools are closed for the storm and what effect this has on the children
what the three girls whispering at the fence at the end of the poem are planning to do.
Tags
CCSS.RL.6.4
CCSS.RL.7.10
CCSS.RL.7.4
CCSS.RL.7.5
CCSS.RL.8.10
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