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Humpty Dumpty

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.

All the king’s horses and all the king’s men

Couldn’t put Humpty together again.

Which lines of Humpty Dumpty rhyme?

• only lines 1 and 4 rhyme

• only lines 1 and 2 rhyme

• lines 1 and 2; lines 3 and 4

• lines 1 and 3; lines 2 and 4

Which title is an example of alliteration?

• Colors of the Day

• Boom! Crash! Bang!

• Mark, Fast as the Wind

• Following Furry Foxes

The Railway Train

By: Emily Dickinson

¹ I like to see it lap the miles,

And lick the valleys up,

And stop to feed itself at tanks;

And then, prodigious, step

⁵ Around a pile of mountains,

And, supercilious, peer

In shanties by the sides of roads;

And then a quarry pare

To fit its sides, and crawl between,

¹⁰ Complaining all the while

In horrid, hooting stanza;

Then chase itself down hill

And neigh like Boanerges;

Then, punctual as a star,

¹⁵ Stop -- docile and omnipotent --

At its own stable door.

Emily Dickinson uses which poetic device to help the reader vividly see the train's movements?

• hyperbole

• imagery

• paradox

• repetition

From “The Road not Taken” by Robert Frost

¹ Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

⁶ Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

¹¹ And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

¹⁶ I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less travelled by,

And that has made all the difference.

Which literary technique is used in the second stanza?

• hyperbole

• imagery

• personification

• refrain

The Railway Train

By: Emily Dickinson

¹ I like to see it lap the miles,

And lick the valleys up,

And stop to feed itself at tanks;

And then, prodigious, step

⁵ Around a pile of mountains,

And, supercilious, peer

In shanties by the sides of roads;

And then a quarry pare

To fit its sides, and crawl between,

¹⁰ Complaining all the while

In horrid, hooting stanza;

Then chase itself down hill

And neigh like Boanerges;

Then, punctual as a star,

¹⁵ Stop -- docile and omnipotent --

At its own stable door.

What kind of sound device is represented in the first two lines of the poem?

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• personification