Poems

A nonhuman subject is presented as it had human qualities.

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

Two dissimilar things are compared using like, as, seems, than, as if, or a similar connecting word.

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

Two dissimilar things are compared without a connecting word such as like or as.

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

What is the poem “In the Longhouse, Oneida Museum” mainly about?

• the speaker’s life since escaping her childhood in a

  longhouse

• the speaker’s memories and thoughts as she visits a longhouse

• the speaker’s reminiscences of childhood growing up in a longhouse

In “Cloudy Day,” where is the speaker as he expresses his thoughts?

• on a ship

• in a prison

• in a farmhouse

How does the overall feeling expressed in “Cloudy Day” change most clearly from the beginning of the poem to the final lines?

• The feeling changes from one of desolation to one of hope.

• The feeling changes from one of uncertainty to one of fear.

• The feeling changes from one of relief to one of

  restlessness.

At the end of “Cloudy Day,” what does the speaker say that he has learned? Choose three options.

• that he can endure

• that he has suffered

• that he can still love

• that he has everything

• that he can never be free

How are the speakers in “Cloudy Day” and “In the Longhouse, Oneida Museum” most clearly alike?

• Both are prisoners who dream of their release.

• Both are exiles from the continent of their birth.

• Both are thinking about a life they missed out on.

What is the speaker saying about herself in these lines from “In the Longhouse, Oneida Museum”?

I rode whatever river, ignoring every zigzag,

Every spin. I’ve been a fragment, less than my name,

shaking in a solitary landscape,

like the last burnt leaf on an oak

• She loses confidence in herself whenever she is alone.

• She feels disconnected from some aspect of herself.

• She has become lost on a road trip to the museum.

What decision has the speaker arrived at by the end of “In the Longhouse, Oneida Museum”?

• She will continue to wander through her life.

• She will forgive herself for failing to find peace with her life.

• She will carry her Oneida heritage within her.