Elements of Poetry

One of the differences between haikus and sonnets is...

• the number of adjectives used in the poems.

• the number of lines in the poems.

• the type of writer who composes the poems.

• the types of verbs used in the poems.

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Read the poem "The Book of Questions" by Pablo Neruda (in the picture.)

Based on the section about verses & stanzas, how is the poem organized?

• It contains four stanzas with two lines each.

• It contains two stanzas with four lines each.

• It contains 25 lines arranged in one stanza.

• It does not contain any stanzas.

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Which of the excerpts is an example of personification?

• Well, son, I’ll tell you:/ Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair./ It’s had tacks in it,/ And splinters,/ And boards torn up,/ And places with no carpet on the floors/ Bare.

• I’d love to take a poem to lunch/ or treat it to a wholesome brunch/ of fresh cut fruit and apple crunch.

• I wandered lonely as a cloud/ That floats on high o'er vales and hills,/ When all at once I saw a crowd,/ A host, of golden daffodils;

• The Moon’s a snowball. See the drifts/ Of white that cross the sphere./ The Moon’s a snowball, melted down/ A dozen times a year.

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Read the excerpt from the poem “The Ecchoing Green” by William Blake (in the picture.)

Based on the section on rhyme scheme, what is the rhyme scheme in this poem?

• ABAB

• ABAC

• ABBA

• AABB

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Read the poem “The Fog” by Carl Sandburg (in the picture.)

Based on the section on free verse, this poem is an example of free verse in part because...

• it refers to an animal

• it is written in the third person

• its first line has three syllables

• it doesn’t follow a specific rhyme scheme

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Which of the following excerpts includes onomatopoeia?

• Listen my children and you shall hear/ Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere/ On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five:/ Hardly a man is now alive

• Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand.

• Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before

• It SHUSHES/ It hushes/ The loudness in the road./ It flitter-twitters,/ And laughs away from me.

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What is true about poetry?

• Poetry is always written in strict form.

• Poets choose words for their meaning and sound.

• Unlike prose, poetry is written in straightforward language.

• Poets never read their poems aloud.

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