Poetry Unit Assessment

What is the theme in "We Real Cool"?

• Being bad leads you in the right direction.
• Living life rebelliously can lead to happiness
• Living a life of rebellion can lead to death

What does the poet repeat in "Poetry" to convey her message?

• Happy
• Loneliness
• Sunshine
• Freedom

What is "The Bean Eaters" about?

• An old couple living in poverty in America reminicising on their life.
• A couple with a baby that cannot afford to live.
• An old couple living a lavish lifestyle and taking everything for granted.

Choose the main thing that poetry is supposed to do according to Giovanni in "Poetry".

• "If we cannot realize that people are lonely and that we keep them lonely".
• "If it cannot heed the insistent message that life is precious which is all we poets are trying to say."
• "It never says love my poets and poetry because we are lonely."

What figurative language does the author use in "The Bean Eaters"?

• Personification when she writes "The beans spoke to them."
• Simile when she writes "The old couple were like two beans."
• Repetition of the word remember

What personification appears in "Intro. to Poetry"?

• "But all they want to do is tie a poem to a chair with a rope."
• "Walking in like a god is what poetry is - a god"

What is "Teacher" about?

• A teacher that is alive and loved what he did.
• A teacher that was always good and has no regrets.
• A teacher that is dead and regrets his life choices.

What are twinklings and twinges in "The Bean Eaters"?

• The mean people and the nice people in life
• The sad and the happy children they raised.
• The good and the bad times in their life.

What is the message in "Intro. to Poetry"?

• One should search constantly for the message the poet is giving.
• One should enjoy reading a poem instead of finding the meaning
• Poetry is meant to be broken down and figured out quickly.

Where does "We Real Cool" take place?

• In a pool hall at The Golden Shovel
• In a pool hall called The Rebellious Ones
• In a skating rink.