Unit 2 week 5 Poetry comprehension

Reread the poem “The Inventor Thinks Up Helicopters.”

To what is the poet comparing a helicopter?

• bugs

  
  

• pastures

• rugs

  
  

• spiders

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CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.K.3

What type of poem is “The Inventor Thinks

Up Helicopters?”

• acrostic

• free verse

• haiku

  
  

• limerick

Read the following line from the “The Inventor Thinks Up

Helicopters.”

that swerves like a dragonfly testing his steering,

What type of figurative language does the poet use in

these lines?

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• simile

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CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

Reread these lines from the poem “Ornithopter.”

But no matter the wind or the weather, A pilot whose wings swing together

Which does the poet use in these lines of the poem?

• alliteration

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• repetition

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CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

How are all the poems ALIKE?

• They are all about flying.

• They are all about flying machines.

• They all have similar rhyming patterns.

• They all include similes and metaphors.

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CCSS.RI.1.9

CCSS.RI.2.9

CCSS.RI.3.9

CCSS.RI.5.7

CCSS.RL.4.7