Poetry Unit Assessment

"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"  

 By William Wordsworth 

  I wandered lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o'er vales and hills,

When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host, of golden daffodils;

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine

And twinkle on the Milky Way,

They stretched in never-ending line

Along the margin of a bay:

Ten thousand saw I at a glance,

Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they

Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:

A poet could not but be gay,

In such a jocund company:

I gazed---and gazed---but little thought

What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie

In vacant or in pensive mood,

They flash upon that inward eye

Which is the bliss of solitude;

And then my heart with pleasure fills,

And dances with the daffodils.

Identify and explain a simile from the poem.

Answer explanation

lonely as a cloud

or

Continuous as the stars

"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"  

 By William Wordsworth 

  I wandered lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o'er vales and hills,

When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host, of golden daffodils;

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine

And twinkle on the Milky Way,

They stretched in never-ending line

Along the margin of a bay:

Ten thousand saw I at a glance,

Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they

Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:

A poet could not but be gay,

In such a jocund company:

I gazed---and gazed---but little thought

What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie

In vacant or in pensive mood,

They flash upon that inward eye

Which is the bliss of solitude;

And then my heart with pleasure fills,

And dances with the daffodils.

What is the rhyme scheme of this poem?

Answer explanation

ababcc

"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"  

 By William Wordsworth 

  I wandered lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o'er vales and hills,

When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host, of golden daffodils;

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine

And twinkle on the Milky Way,

They stretched in never-ending line

Along the margin of a bay:

Ten thousand saw I at a glance,

Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they

Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:

A poet could not but be gay,

In such a jocund company:

I gazed---and gazed---but little thought

What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie

In vacant or in pensive mood,

They flash upon that inward eye

Which is the bliss of solitude;

And then my heart with pleasure fills,

And dances with the daffodils.

Give an example of imagery used in this poem.

Answer explanation

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze., A host, of golden daffodils;, Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"  

 By William Wordsworth 

  I wandered lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o'er vales and hills,

When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host, of golden daffodils;

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine

And twinkle on the Milky Way,

They stretched in never-ending line

Along the margin of a bay:

Ten thousand saw I at a glance,

Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they

Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:

A poet could not but be gay,

In such a jocund company:

I gazed---and gazed---but little thought

What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie

In vacant or in pensive mood,

They flash upon that inward eye

Which is the bliss of solitude;

And then my heart with pleasure fills,

And dances with the daffodils.

Identify two examples of personification in this poem.

Answer explanation

daffodils dancing in the breeze., waves beside them danced, my heart dances with the daffodils

 

"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"  

 By William Wordsworth 

  I wandered lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o'er vales and hills,

When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host, of golden daffodils;

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine

And twinkle on the Milky Way,

They stretched in never-ending line

Along the margin of a bay:

Ten thousand saw I at a glance,

Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they

Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:

A poet could not but be gay,

In such a jocund company:

I gazed---and gazed---but little thought

What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie

In vacant or in pensive mood,

They flash upon that inward eye

Which is the bliss of solitude;

And then my heart with pleasure fills,

And dances with the daffodils.

What do the daffodils represent to the speaker?

Answer explanation

happiness, freedom

What is the theme of this poem?"The Good That I Can Do" by Guthrie

I live for those who love me,

For those who know me true,

For the world that is around me,

And the good that I can do;

For the wrongs that need resistance,

For the cause that lacks assistance,

For the future in the distance,

And the good that I can do.

• to live for the good that one can do for oneself

• to live for the good that one can do for others

• to live each day as if it is the last

• to live each day for the future

In the excerpt from the poem, which literary device is used?

"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (excerpt)

By William Wordsworth

Continuous as the stars that shine 

And twinkle on the Milky Way, 

They stretched in never-ending line 

Along the margin of a bay: 

Ten thousand saw I at a glance, 

Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

• hyperbole

• personification

• symbol

• dialogue

What literary technique is used in this poem?

The following is an excerpt from "The Charge of the Heavy Brigade at Balaclava" 

By Alfred Lord Tennyson 

Fell like a cannon-shot, 

Burst like a thunderbolt, 

Crash'd like a hurricane,

• personification

• metaphor

• idiom

• simile

"Ghost House" by Robert Frost 

I DWELL in a lonely house I know 

That vanished many a summer ago,

And left no trace but the cellar walls, 

And a cellar in which the daylight falls, 

And the purple-stemmed wild raspberries grow. 

O'er ruined fences the grape-vines shield

The woods come back to the mowing field; 

The orchard tree has grown one copse 

Of new wood and old where the woodpecker chops; 

The footpath down to the well is healed. 

I dwell with a strangely aching heart 

In that vanished abode there far apart 

On that disused and forgotten road 

That has no dust-bath now for the toad. 

Night comes; the black bats tumble and dart; 

The whippoorwill is coming to shout 

And hush and cluck and flutter about: 

I hear him begin far enough away 

Full many a time to say his say 

Before he arrives to say it out. 

It is under the small, dim, summer star. 

I know not who these mute folk are 

Who share the unlit place with me-- 

Those stones out under the low-limbed tree

Doubtless bear names that the mosses mar. 

They are tireless folk, but slow and sad, 

Though two, close-keeping, are lass and lad,-- 

With none among them that ever sings, 

And yet, in view of how many things, 

As sweet companions as might be had. 

Which of these is an example of onomatopoeia as used in the poem above?

• 'The footpath down to the well is healed.'

• 'the black bats tumble and dart;'

• '... hush and cluck and flutter about:'

• '... bear names that the mosses mar.'

"Ghost House" by Robert Frost 

I DWELL in a lonely house I know 

That vanished many a summer ago,

And left no trace but the cellar walls, 

And a cellar in which the daylight falls, 

And the purple-stemmed wild raspberries grow. 

O'er ruined fences the grape-vines shield

The woods come back to the mowing field; 

The orchard tree has grown one copse 

Of new wood and old where the woodpecker chops; 

The footpath down to the well is healed. 

I dwell with a strangely aching heart 

In that vanished abode there far apart 

On that disused and forgotten road 

That has no dust-bath now for the toad. 

Night comes; the black bats tumble and dart; 

The whippoorwill is coming to shout 

And hush and cluck and flutter about: 

I hear him begin far enough away 

Full many a time to say his say 

Before he arrives to say it out. 

It is under the small, dim, summer star. 

I know not who these mute folk are 

Who share the unlit place with me-- 

Those stones out under the low-limbed tree

Doubtless bear names that the mosses mar. 

They are tireless folk, but slow and sad, 

Though two, close-keeping, are lass and lad,-- 

With none among them that ever sings, 

And yet, in view of how many things, 

As sweet companions as might be had. 

Which of these contains an example of alliteration in the poem above?

• 'And left no trace but the cellar walls'

• 'The whippoorwill is coming to shout'

• 'Though two, close-keeping, are lass and lad'

• 'As sweet companions as might be had'