District Assessment Review

The author in "Sea Dirge" reveals the speaker's feelings mainly by...

• using personification to describe them

• explaining how his friends feel

• repeating specific words

• describing them with sarcasm

The poet in "Sea Dirge" use of a question in line 16 helps create... " How do you like the sea?"

• imagery

• a shift in tone

• a simile

• an uncertain resolution

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1J

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.8.1C

CCSS.L.K.1D

Read these lines from the poem "Sea Dirge"

"It is pleasant and dreamy, no doubt, to float

With 'thoughts as boundless, and souls as free':

But, suppose you are very unwell in the boat,

How do you like the Sea?

The poet uses these lines to...

• highlight his changing feelings about the sea

• explain what it is like to dream about the sea

• contrast different perspectives about being out at sea

• list things that can be done while out at sea

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

The comparisons in lines 5-12 in "Sea Dirge" are used to emphasize...

" Pour some salt water over the floor,

Ugly I'm sure you'll allow it to be:

Suppose it extended a mile or more

That's very like the Sea.

Beat a dog till it howls outright,

Cruel, but all very well for a spree:

Suppose that he did so day and night,

That would be like the Sea?

• Admirable characteristics of the sea

• the difficulty in cleaning the floor

• unfavorable characteristics of the sea

• actions that make dogs bark often

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

The poet in "Sea Dirge" ends each stanza with the word Sea most likely to...

• emphasize the name of the poem

• emphasize his feelings about the sea

• explain facts about the sea

• suggest that everyone should visit the sea

Tags

CCSS.L.1.2B

CCSS.L.4.3B

CCSS.L.K.2B

The imagery in stanzas 5 and 6 in "Sea Dirge" suggest that...

"If you like coffee with sand for dregs,

A decided hit of salt in your tea,

and a fishy taste in the very eggs,

by all means choose the sea.

" And if, with these dainties to drink and eat,

You prefer not a vestige of grass or tree,

and a chronic state of we in your feet,

Then, I recommend the Sea.

• the mind can be freed of worries when near the sea

• there are unpleasant aspects of being near the sea

• coffee and tea taste better when enjoyed by the sea

• dining with friends is preferable to dining along

What change, if any, should be made to sentence 24.

" I will be make these decisions throughout my life."

• insert a comma after decisions

• change these to this

• change make to making

• no change needs to be made in sentence 24

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1E

CCSS.L.4.1B

CCSS.L.5.1.B-D

CCSS.L.5.1C

CCSS.L.5.1D

What change, if any, should be made to sentence 11?

" I also expressed that I was concerned about disapointing our neighbor and not keeping my promise."

• Change concerned to concerning

• Change disapointing to disappointing

• add a comma after expressed

• no change need to be made to sentence 11

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.3.1D

What change, if any should be made to sentence 5?

" It all began when my best friend's family invited me to go with them on a short vacation to the beach in galveston."

• Change galveston to Galveston

• change them to us

• Insert a comma after began

• no change needs to be made to sentence 5

Tags

CCSS.L.1.2A

CCSS.L.2.2A

CCSS.L.3.2A

CCSS.L.4.2A

CCSS.L.K.2A

What change if any should be made to sentence 3?

" However some decisions require careful thought because they could have lasting consequences or affect others."

• Change decisions to desisions

• insert a comma after However

• Change they to we

• No change needs to be made in sentence 3

Tags

CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.6.2A