Poetry STAAR Review 2019

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.