2024 3rd Nine Weeks Test

In "Sleeping in the Forest," how does the use of personification help achieve the poet's purpose?

• It downplays the importance of Earth
• It downplays the importance of the speaker
• It highlights the importance of Earth
• It highlights the importance of the speaker

Select two phrases that express how the speaker in "Sleeping in The Forest" thinks of the forest in lines 1-5.

• as an unpleasant neighbor
• as a skirt with pockets
• as a comforting friend
• as a riverbed with rushing water
• as a motherly figure

Select word that best describe the mood that the poet in "Ode to Enchanted Light" establishes with the simile in lines 3-5.

• sad
• somber
• calm
• sympathetic

This question has two parts. First answer Part A. Then, Part B. Part A Which sentence best describes the tone of the poem?

• The tone of the poem is appreciative.
• The tone of the poem is ominous.
• The tone of the poem is eager.
• The tone of the poem is lonely.

Part B Toward what does the poem express the tone identified in Part A?

• cicadas
• natural light
• leaves
• empty air

Which best expresses where the speaker in "Ode to Enchanted Light" is located?

• in a meadow where cicadas sing
• near a river that is overflowing
• under the branches of some trees
• in an airplane high in the air

The moon was a silver ship sailing through the sea.

• metaphor
• simile
• personification
• hyperbole

She swims like a fish.

• metaphor
• simile
• personification
• hyperbole

The water opened its arms and invited them in.

• metaphor
• simile
• personification
• hyperbole

He was so tired that he could have slept for a month.

• metaphor
• simile
• personification
• hyperbole