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.

Who is the author of "Momentum?"

• Catherine Doty

• Edgar Allan Poe

• Emily Dickinson

• Robert Browning

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.

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)

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.

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

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

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

The topic of a haiku is typically nature-themed.

• True

• False

Haikus are written in the past tense.

• True

• False