3.1.8 Eng 9 Quiz

Why do poets use imagery?

• To enable the reader to connect with a poem emotionally

• To provide a personal opinion

• To show the reader how to write poetry

• To help the reader understand conflict

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What does the information provided by imagery do?

• Evokes the reader's pre-existing knowledge

• Appeals to the reader's five senses

• Expresses the poet's personal opinion

• Shows the reader how to write a poem

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What can a poet's use of imagery help establish in a poem?

• Plot

• Conflict

• Mood

• Conclusion

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Which words from Li-Young Lee's "From Blossoms" most clearly help create a positive mood?

• "bend" and "turned"

• "hands" and "bins"

• "devour" and "dust"

• "sweet" and "nectar"

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Which phrase is an example of a concrete detail in Li-Young Lee's "From Blossoms"?

• this brown paper bag of peaches

• to take what we love

• from sweet fellowship

• not only the sugar, but the days

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Which statement is the best example of a theme of "From Blossoms" by Li-Young Lee?

• It's fun to eat peaches out of a paper bag during summer.

• It's important to experience and enjoy every day.

• Peaches are meant to be eaten soon after being picked.

• You should eat peaches whenever you can.

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Click to read "miss rosie" by Lucille Clifton. Then answer the question. What effect does the repetition of the phrase "when I watch you" have on the poem?

• It gives the poem a sense of rhythm.

• It allows the poem to rhyme.

• It helps wrap up the main conflict.

• It expresses the poet's personal opinion.

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Read this passage:

sitting, surrounded by the smell of too old potato peels Lucille Clifton, "miss rosie"

The passage is an example of:

• Theme

• Denotation

• Figurative language

• Concrete imagery

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Which sentence is most clearly about the relationship between a poem's setting and its mood?

• When the poem uses the word "wolf," she really means "courage."

• As a character, the speaker is full of anxiety and anger throughout.

• The stuffy lecture hall creates a feeling of being bored and trapped.

• Simile is a comparison that uses the words "like," "as," or "resembles."

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Read "I Am Offering this Poem," by Jimmy Santiago Baca. Then answer the question. In the poem, which image is compared to a poem?

• Winter nights

• Thick socks

• An uncaring world

• Dense trees

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