Week 15 Review Game- "Momentum" and City Poems

Which statement best expresses a theme of "Momentum?"

• It's important to have friends who support your decisions.

• We can make poor decisions when we seek approval from our friends.

• Being brave helps us earn respect from others.

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Who is the author of "Momentum?"

• Catherine Doty

• Edgar Allan Poe

• Emily Dickinson

• Robert Browning

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How does the structure of the poem's ("Momentum"'s) stanzas contribute to the text's meaning?

• The stanza break divides the poem between what the subject first thinks about their friends and what her or she will think of them later.

• The stanza break divides the poem between what happens before and after the barrel is kicked down the mountain.

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In reference to "Momentum," which of the following lines from the text provides the best evidence for the poem's point of view?

• "The barrel changes shape with each crash to earth," (Line 19)

• "the pin oaks are popping in their sockets, the hillside" (Line 23)

• "crab apples hanging sour in the sun, abandoned Buick," (Line 5)

• "You know as you feel that first solid slam you are lost." (Line 18)

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What is the meaning of the phrase "the hillside wears your shoes" as it is used in lines 23-24?

• The sun made shadows of the shoes on the hillside.

• The kids stole the subject's shoes.

• The subject's shoes flew off and landed on the hillside.

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The phrase "ankles flayed to the bone" means that...

• the skin is stripped to the bone

• the skin is shiny and healthy

• the skin is rosy and red

• the skin is patchy and peeling

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Brittle in the context of the poem means_______.

See lines 21-22 for context:

                        "cracked ribs  and

                        crushed mint, the brittle, pissy sumac"

• a kind of hard candy

• strong and resilient

• a type of pinecone

• easily broken, cracked, or snapped

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A ___________ consists of four 3-liner haiku, plus a couplet of either 5 or 7 syllables, which adds up to 14 lines, the same number of lines found in a sonnet.

• sonnet

• haiku sonnet

• haiku

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The topic of a haiku is typically nature-themed.

• True

• False

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Haikus are written in the past tense.

• True

• False

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