Practice for B3: Photosynthesis Paired Passage

#1: What three types of figurative language can be found in stanza 1 of photosynthesis? Don't forget to prove your answers.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

• alliteration

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6.4.d

Providing Evidence for #1: Match the words or phrases from stanza 1 to the type of figurative language you selected in question #11.

• alliteration

• breathe carbon dioxide with such grace

• metaphor

• good at giving

• metaphor

• Photosynthesis is the way of living

• personification

• do not take anything out of greed

• personification

• For a plant is a Samaritan

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

#2: What two types of figurative language devices can be found in lines 15-16 of the poem?

• alliteration and personification

• alliteration and simile

• metaphor and personification

• alliteration and metaphor

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6.4.d

Proving #2: Use the tool to select two separate examples of alliteration in lines 15-16. Note: There will be 3 hotspots in total.

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CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

#3: Please refer to the dictionary entry. What definition of beam is used in stanza 3?

• Definition 1

• Definition 2

• Definition 3

• Definition 4

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6.4.e

6.4.c

Providing evidence for #3: Select the word or phrase that best helps you understand the correct meaning of "beam" in stanza 3.

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.7.4

#4: Which 2 lines appeal to the sense of touch?

• Oh to feel the sunshine on their face

• breathe carbon dioxide with such grace

• They squeeze the last bit of water from the ground

• Making a feast of glucose as silence surrounds

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6.5.e

#5: Select the answer that identifies the type of poem.

• It is a funny poem with rhyme scheme AABBA, so it is a limerick

• It is a poem about nature, so it is a haiku

• It is a free verse because it is a longer poem.

• It is a poem with four lines in each stanza with a rhyme scheme of AABB, so it is a quatrain rather than a free verse.

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6.5.g

#6: Which organizational pattern could best be used to describe paragraph 3 or the article?

• cause and effect

• problem and solution

• process

• chronological order

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6.6.f

Prove #6: Select the two clues, words, or phrases that best helps you identify the organizational pattern of paragraph 3.

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6.6.f

6.6.g