A Poison Tree

What is the rhyme scheme of the "Poison Tree"?

• ABAB

• AABB

• ABBA

• ABCD

Which of the following symbolizes the speaker's growing anger?

• poison

• apple

• garden

• tree

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CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

Which of the following is the best theme for "A Poison Tree"?

• Deceitful people are always punished by their own trickery.

• Envy and greed can permanently damage a relationship.

• Bottling up one’s feelings leads to resentment and even violence.

• A healthy friendship is built on trust and communication.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

Which of the following lines contains alliteration?

• "Night and morning with my tears"

• "In the morning glad I see"

• "and I sunned it with smiles"

• "and into my garden stole"

Which of the following stanzas contains repetition?

• Stanza 1

• Stanza 2

• Stanza 3

• Stanza 4

What impact does the figurative language in lines 5-8 have on the poem’s meaning?

• The speaker tends to their wrath like a plant that later produces a poisoned fruit, implying that anger can feel satisfying but is toxic to let grow.

• The speaker’s wrath grows every time their foe smiles at or acts kindly towards the speaker, which suggests that nothing can overcome hatred.

• The speaker tends to their wrath like a plant, implying that the speaker actually does care for the foe because of all of the attention they pay to them.

• The speaker’s wrath ripens like a piece of fruit that, like the foe, is outwardly beautiful but inwardly rotten.

Which of the following quotes best supports the theme?

• “I was angry with my friend; / I told my wrath, my wrath did end.” (Lines 1-2)

• “I was angry with my foe: / I told it not, my wrath did grow.” (Lines 3-4)

• “And I sunned it with smiles, / And with soft deceitful wiles.” (Lines 7-8)

• “And my foe beheld it shine, / And he knew that it was mine.” (Lines 11-12)

How do the speaker’s actions in the first stanza provoke action in the poem?

• The speaker expresses their anger to their friend but withholds this anger from their foe, creating some tension between the friend and the foe.

• The speaker tricks the foe into trusting them by hiding their anger in the first stanza and offering the foe a poisoned apple later on in the poem.

• The speaker acts differently towards their friend than their foe, which makes the foe jealous and pushes them to steal from the speaker.

• The speaker does not express their anger to their foe, and because of this, their anger worsens until it eventually grows into a poisonous tree.

The speaker deals with their anger by…

• not telling their friend about the anger but telling the foe

• not telling the foe about the anger but telling their friend

• not telling friend nor foe about their anger

• telling both friend and foe about their anger.

What happens to the speaker’s anger towards their enemy, or foe?

• It worsens as the speaker becomes frightened.

• It grows just as a plant grows.

• It dies from being watered too much.

• It decreases as time goes by so he gets over it.

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CCSS.RL.1.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.7.4