Vocabulary from "My Mother Pieced Quilts" poem

The word "ripened" is an adjective that describes:

• something that is still green and young

• something that is ready to harvest in the fall and has been growing a while

• something that is orange

• something that is yellow

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

The word "oblong" means:

• a shape of something that is sort of rectangular

• a sound of something that is sad

• a color of something that is dark

• a light color

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

In the poem "along the frayed edges" means that the edges of the quilt are:

• scary looking

• worn out

• brand new

• barely touched and neat

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CCSS.RI.6.7

CCSS.RI.7.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RL.7.7

CCSS.RL.8.7

The word "linoleum" describes:

• the walls

• the roof

• the bed

• the floor

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

When the speaker of the poem says "corpus christi noon when my father held your hand", he or she is probably talking about:

• the time the parents got lost in a scary place

• the time the parents got married in a town in Texas

• the time the parents got married in a different country

• the time they went to the doctor with their mother

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

"Artillery" most likely means:

• a type of material

• a type of tree

• a type of weapon

• a type of cotton

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CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

If something or someone is "plunged," what is happening?

• it or they are being thrown into or below something

• it or they are being rescued from something

• it or they are being sewn together

• it or they are being forced to do something

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

The poem says about the quilt that it is "sewn hard and taut to withstand the thrashings of twenty-five years" so taut probably means:

• strong and tightly sewn

• loose and easily broken

• soft and flexible

• none of these

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

This poem is probably what type, based on the fact that there is no regular meter and nothing is capitalized or punctuated?

• sonnet

• haiku

• ballad

• open or free verse

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

An example of an extended metaphor in this poem is:

• when the speaker compares the mother to a bird in the whole poem

• when the speaker compares the mother to a sewing machine in the last stanza

• when the speaker compares the mother to an angel

• when the speaker compares the mother to a river in two different places

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

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