CKLA Unit 3: Poetry
Authored by Angela Frontino
English
4th Grade
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This quiz focuses on poetry and literary devices, specifically targeting the identification and application of figurative language techniques including similes, metaphors, alliteration, and anaphora. Designed for fourth-grade students, the assessment evaluates students' ability to distinguish between these literary devices through both definition-based questions and applied examples. Students must demonstrate understanding of sentence types (exclamations, commands, questions, and declarations) and their characteristics. The quiz requires students to recognize the structural and functional differences between comparative devices—understanding that similes use "like" or "as" while metaphors make direct comparisons, that alliteration creates rhythm through repeated initial sounds, and that anaphora emphasizes meaning through repetitive phrase beginnings. The final questions reference a "poet's journal," indicating students have been reading and analyzing specific poems as part of their instructional unit, requiring them to recall details and make inferences about character descriptions and poetic advice. Created by Angela Frontino, an English teacher in the US who teaches grade 4. This quiz serves as an excellent formative assessment tool to gauge student mastery of essential poetry concepts before moving to more complex literary analysis. Teachers can use this as a warm-up activity to activate prior knowledge, assign it as homework to reinforce classroom instruction, or implement it as a review session before summative assessments. The quiz structure makes it particularly effective for identifying which students need additional support with figurative language concepts and provides immediate feedback on student progress. This assessment aligns with Common Core Standards CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.4, which requires students to determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in text including figurative language, and CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.4.5, which focuses on demonstrating understanding of figurative language and word relationships.
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
compares two things using like or as
simile
metaphor
alliteration
anaphora
Tags
CCSS.RL.5.5
CCSS.RL.3.3
CCSS.RL.4.3
CCSS.RL.5.3
CCSS.RL.6.3
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
compares two things, but does NOT use like or as
simile
metaphor
alliteration
anaphora
Tags
CCSS.RL.5.5
CCSS.RL.3.3
CCSS.RL.4.3
CCSS.RL.5.3
CCSS.RL.6.3
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
“all the same” sounds at the beginning of words in a phrase
simile
metaphor
anaphora
alliteration
Tags
CCSS.RL.5.5
CCSS.RL.3.3
CCSS.RL.4.3
CCSS.RL.5.3
CCSS.RL.2.3
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
the repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of lines
simile
metaphor
anaphora
alliteration
Tags
CCSS.RL.5.5
CCSS.RL.3.3
CCSS.RL.4.3
CCSS.RL.5.3
CCSS.RL.2.3
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is this sentence an example of?
Sally sells seashells by the seashore.
simile
metaphor
anaphora
alliteration
Tags
CCSS.RL.5.5
CCSS.RL.3.3
CCSS.RL.4.3
CCSS.RL.5.3
CCSS.RL.2.3
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is this sentence an example of?
Her eyes were as blue as the ocean!
simile
metaphor
anaphora
alliteration
Tags
CCSS.RL.5.5
CCSS.RL.3.3
CCSS.RL.4.3
CCSS.RL.5.3
CCSS.RL.2.3
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is this short poem an example of?
There were horses.
There were cows.
There were pigs.
There were cats.
There were dogs.
There were chickens.
simile
metaphor
anaphora
alliteration
Tags
CCSS.RL.3.4
CCSS.RL.4.4
CCSS.RL.4.5
CCSS.RL.5.4
CCSS.RL.3.5
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