Seasons Haiku

What human ability does the poet give to the flower buds?

• they blossom

• they dance

• they wash the earth

• they spring forth

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CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.2

What action tells you how the lightning appears in the sky?

• cracks

• flashes

• tears

• dashes

Who dashes for shelter because of the storm?

• children in the park

• everyone outside

• all of the people watching fireworks

• the blossoms on the trees

Which type of figurative language is found in the first line of the third haiku?

• rhyming

• alliteration

• metaphor

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

What element of nature can be found in two of the haiku poems?

• rain

• sun

• clouds

• lightning

Which two words does the author use in the third haiku to give it a sad mood?

• gloomy, alone

• sad, down

• gloomy, bare

• wild, worry

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CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

In the haiku Summer, what does the author want you to think about while reading the first line?

• fireworks

• firemen

• camping fire

• car crash

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CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.4

What makes the flower buds spring forth into blossoms?

• heavy rain

• soft rain

• light rain

• gardener watering them

Why are the tree limbs worried?

• the wild winds will cause them to break off

• a tornado will come

• leaves will get everywhere

• tree limbs will fall on houses

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.1

If the poet sat down to write a 4th haiku, which of the following lines do you think she would use?

• Wet winter flakes fall

• the ocean waves are strong

• flowers blossom in soft pink

• slimy worms in muddy earth