Poetry Test Practice

"That poetry test was brutal"

Which word has the same connotation as the word brutal above?

• Confusing

• Wicked

• Difficult

• Murderous

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5C

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

What is a stanza?

• The way a poem sounds

• The structure of the entire poem

• A line in a poem

• A paragraph in a poem

Define the word connotation

• The idea or feeling brought on by a word, different than it's definition

• The literal definition of a word that you can find in the dictionary

• The purpose of a word being used in a sentence

• The way a poet structures the rhyming in a poem

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5C

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

"They were elated to see they had finally understood a poem in ELA class!"

Which word has the same connotation as elated in the example above?

• Happy

• Thrilled

• Neutral

• Satisfied

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5C

CCSS.RL.6.4

Use your context clues to define incisors in the following example:

"The beaver uses it's big front teeth to gnaw trees. The incisors continue to grow as they are worn away"

• The word incisors means trees

• The word incisors means teeth

• The word incisors means chew

• The word incisors means mouth

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

"She travelled through the desert, which was a sea of sand"

What does the metaphor sea of sand mean in the example above?

• The desert did not have much sand

• The desert was difficult to travel through

• The desert was full of never-ending sand

• The desert was lush and green

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

What is a line in a poem?

• A way a poem sounds

• An individual sentence in the poem

• A paragraph in a poem

• A rhyme scheme in a poem

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

"Long live the rose that grew from concrete"

Long live is an example of which type of figurative language?

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

Define the word emphasize

• To determine the meaning of something

• To point out a correct answer

• To make something important

• To make something less relevant

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

Define present tense

• The story or poem is happening in the future

• The story or poem is described in the past

• The story or poem is described in current time

• The story or the poem does not have a timeframe

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RL.6.4