Rain in Summer by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Read these lines. What kind of figurative language is there?

How it gushes and struggles out

from the throat of the overflowing spout!

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

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What kind of figurative language is this?

How it clatters along the roads

like the tramp of hoofs!

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

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Which of the following describes the poems structure, rhyme scheme or sound devices? Select ALL of the correct answers.

• All the stanzas have the same rhyme scheme or pattern.

• All the stanzas have sound devices...words that sound like the sound they make.

• All the stanzas repeat the same line.

• All the stanzas have different numbers of lines.

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CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

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What is the tone of the poem?

• joyous

• somber

• angry

• reflective

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CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

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CCSS.RL.7.10

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Which line helps you decide the tone of the poem?

• How beautiful is the rain!

• It pours and pours!

• And down the wet streets

• Like a leopard's tawny and spotted hide

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CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

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What is the simile in the last stanza of the poem?

• In the country on every side

  Where far and wide

• Stretches the plain

  to the dry grass and the drier grain

  How welcome is the rain

• like a leopard's tawny and spotted hide

  stretches the plain to the dry grass

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CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

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What is this poem really about?

• How beautiful rain is.

• How awful rain is.

• How messy rain is.

• How helpful rain is.

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What does the author compare the rain to in stanza 2?

• The sound of tramping horse hoofs

• The water coming out of a spout

• The muddy water in a river

• How it calms a fevered brain

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CCSS.RL.5.4

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How many stanzas are in this poem?

• 6

• 7

• 5

• 4

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CCSS.RL.5.4

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

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Who is the author of this poem?

• Longfellow

• Angelou

• Langston Hughes

• Emily Dickenson

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