Poetry | "Bird" by Liz Berry

What does a lyric poem express?

• gloomy times and bad feelings

• hard times and hurt feelings

• happy times and exciting feelings

• personal thoughts and feelings

Which vocabulary word is being defined?

The beat created by the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.

• meter

• simile

• rhythm

• alliteration

What device is used here:
"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary..."

• Refrain
• Rhyme
• Meter
• Simile

A form of poetry where a single speaker expresses his/her thoughts or feelings.

• Lyric Poetry

• Couplet

• Internal Rhyme

• Rhyme Scheme

The voice that "talks" to the reader.

• Stanza

• Internal Rhyme

• End Rhyme

• Speaker

Who is the poet of "Bird"?

• James Barry

• Chuck Berry

• Liz Berry

• Karen Smith

Who is the speaker in the poem "Bird"?

• A girl that loves bids.

• A girl that's growing to an adult.

• A girl that is learning to fly.

• A girl with wings and a beak.

What happens to the speaker in the opening stanzas?

• The speaker is getting ready to "transform" to a bird.

• The speaker is bird watching.

• The speaker wants to learn how to fly.

• The speaker is kneeling.

In line 4, the word charm is used to emphasize what?

• The speaker has a necklace.

• It's night and the birds are going to sleep.

• The speaker is charming.

• It's dawn and birds are singing outside.

After reading the simile: "My heart beat like a wing." in line 10, the reader can conclude that____________________.

• The speaker is growing wings.

• The speaker is anxious and excited.

• The speaker is sad and gloomy.

• The speaker has a heart condition.