A Thousand to One Poem Analysis

What does summarize mean?

• to restate the main ideas in a shorter way

• to show

• to first talk about

• to tell all the details from the passage

What is a theme?

• the main idea or what the text is mostly about

• the lesson the author wants you to learn

• the feelings associated with words

• the problem in the text

What is evidence?

• information from the text

• the lines in a poem

• the clues in the passage that hint at word meaning

• a statement made by the author

What does it mean for something to shift?

• to draw attention to something

• to show

• to change

• to stay the same

What does impact mean?

• to affect something

• to change something completely

• to go against something

• to define something

What does contribute mean?

• to show

• to define

• to add to

• to highlight or draw attention to

What does overall mean?

• It relates to only part of the passage

• It adds to something

• It only deals with feelings and emotions, not definitions

• It relates to the entire passage as a whole

Who is a speaker in a poem?

• The author/poet

• The person who is talking in the poem

• The person who created the test

• The person reading the poem

What is point of view?

• The definitions of words in a text

• How the author wants you to feel when reading

• The words the author or speaker uses to talk about something

• How the author or character feels about something

What is a stanza?

• the bold print words at the beginning of each section

• the title of the text

• a group of lines in a poem

• the spaces in the poem or passage