8B HIDE AND SEEK

What does the phrase "They’re moving closer" suggest about the group’s actions?

• The group is playing a different game.
• The group is approaching the hider's location.
• None of the above

What does the phrase “stumbles, mutters” most likely suggest about the seekers?

• They have already found the hider.
• They are tired or frustrated.
• None of the above

How does polysyndeton ("and then the greenhouse and back here again") adds meaning to the poem?

• It makes the sentence harder to read.
• It emphasizes the seekers' methodical and persistent search.
• It adds unnecessary details to the sentence.

What is the primary emotion conveyed by the speaker in these lines? Don’t breathe. Don’t move. Stay dumb. Hide in your blindness. They’re moving closer, someone stumbles, mutters;

• Joy
• Tension
• None of the above

___________________ the repetition of coordinating conjunctions (such as "and") in close succession.

• Simile
• metaphor
• Polysyndeton

How does the caesura employed in the line : " Don’t breathe. Don’t move. Stay dumb. Hide in your blindness" adds to the suspense?

• It reflects the seeker's happy and calm mindset of the hider.
• Hider kept on speaking and it does not make any sense.
• It reflect the speaker's anxiety, panicked mindset and amplifies(heighten) suspense.

Identify the correct meaning of the word "mutter":

• say something in a low voice
• to keep quiet
• none of the above

_________________ a poetic device in which there is a pause between a line of poetry.

• Caesura
• Simile
• Metaphor