Reading Assessment

Jennifer stepped up to the line, drenched in sweat. Her pulse was racing as her teammates lined up in front of her, giving her encouraging nods and smiles. She hadn’t practiced free throws as much as her coach insisted that the team should. Her hands were shaking as she lifted the orange ball above her head, and her arms tensed as she got into shooting position. She gulped as she looked around at the crowd, then at the scoreboard, its glowing numerals showing “43-42,” almost taunting her. Then, she closed her eyes hard, op

• Jennifer does not like playing basketball.

• Jennifer’s team is winning.

• Jennifer’s shot will probably not go in.

• Jennifer has made many free throws before.

I’m going out to clean the pasture spring;

I’ll only stop to rake the leaves away

(And wait to watch the water clear, I may

I shan’t be gone long. You come too.

What is the Rhyme Scheme?

• AABB

• ABBC

• ABBA

• ABCB

I’m going out to fetch the little calf

That’s standing by the mother. It’s so young,

It totters when she licks it with her tongue.

I shan’t be gone long. You come too

• ABBA

• AABB

• AAAA

• ABAB

A form of poetry without any kind of pattern, in rhythm, rhyme scheme, or line length.

• Quatrain

• Couplet

• Free Verse

• Haiku

A four lined poem with a specific rhyming pattern.

• Haiku

• Cinquatrain

• Limerick

• Quatrain

A stanza made up of two lines that rhyme.

• Haiku

• Couplet

• Limerick

• Free verse

A group of lines in poetry (like a paragraph)

• Stanza

• Paragraph

• lines

• Sequence

Sally Sells Seashells by the Sea Shore. What type of figurative language is this?

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Metaphor

I have loved you for a thousand years. What type of figurative language is this?

• onomonapiea

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

This food is as cold as ice. What type of figurative language is this?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Imagery