Kittens Poetry 2018

The description in lines 9 through 12 helps the reader picture

• What kitten's fur looks like

• Which kitten the mother cat is worried

• Where the mother cat keeps her kittens

• How the mother cat moves a kitten.

In the poem, the mother cat wants her kittens to learn to feel comfortable--

• in the snow

• around other animals

• when she picks them up

• when the speaker is near them

Which lines from the poem rhyme?

• weeks ago

  when everything outside was snow

• and carried it

  outside to see

• and then our dog

  decide he

• and one by one

  they took them out

Read line 21 in the poem

To see what sun is all about

the poet included this line to emphasize that the mother cat

• knows it will snow again soon.

• has had a bad experience in the winter

• wants her kittens to explore new things

• thinks her kittens will like the snow

How are the stanzas in the poems alike

• They tell he speaker's feelings about the mother cat.

• They have the same number of lines

• They focus on a problem the mother cat tries to solve

• They repeat important words.

The speaker most likely thinks the mother cat's action are

• Brave

• confusing

• annoying

• wise

How ca the reader tell that this is a narrative poem?

• The poem contains words that appeal to the senses.

• The speaker of the poem shares his or her feelings

• The poem has lines that make the reader laugh

• The events described the poem to tell a story

The mother cat takes her kittens outside because

• The dog arrives

• the kittens grow up

• the sun comes out

• winter is over