Unit 4 Skills Review

In passage 1, there is 14 lines and a couplet at the end of the poem. What kind of poem is this?

• Sonnet
• Free verse
• Haiku
• Limerick

Read passage one.

What is the overall tone of passage one?

• uncertain

• serious

• silly

• uplifting

Which two lines show that the tone is uplifting?

• Within a thick and spreading hawthorn bush (line 1)

• Sing hymns to sunrise, and I drank the sound line (line 4)

• I watched her secret toil from day to day (line 6)

• And by and by, like health-bells gilt with dew, (line 9)

• Glad as the sunshine and the laughing sky. (line 14)

There lay her shining eggs, a bright as flowers,

Why does the author create imagery with words such as shining and bright?

• to inform readers that it's a sunny day

• to emphasize that the eggs have just been laid

• to emphasize the joy and happiness of new life

• to inform readers that the eggs are especially shiny

What is revealed in the couplet at the very end of passage 1?

• Birds everywhere are chirping and flying.

• The sun's rays are shining through the clouds.

• The thrush's chicks have hatched.

• The sky is making happy noises.

How many lines does a sonnet have?

• 12
• 16
• 10
• 14

What is the effect of the different rhyme scheme in the last two lines of paragraph 1?

• It leaves the reader wanting to read more.

• It suggests that the speakers is singing.

• It causes the reader to take notice.

• It alters the mood and the poem.

What rhyme scheme does a sonnet follow?

• ABBA CDCD EFEF GG
• ABBA CDDC EFFE GG
• ABAB CDCD EFEF FF
• ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

All sonnets end in a couplet. What is a couplet?

• A couplet is a single line of verse.
• A couplet is a type of fruit.
• A couplet is a form of dance.
• A couplet is a pair of lines of verse.

What is the overall theme of the passage?

• Laughter is the best medicine.

• Trees are the most beautiful part of nature.

• Imagination is the only escape from lonliness.

• People want to feel like they belong somewhere.