6th Grade Predators review

Which creatures in "Predators" are domesticated? Choose TWO options

• the speaker

• the feline

• the vixen

• the herbs

• the sun

When the speaker in “Predators” says, “In sun the fox / bows to my feline and her good / dog friends who rule this land,” what does she mean?

• The fox feels embarrassed when it sees the pets.

• The fox understands that the cat and dogs know best.

• The fox does not approach when the cat and dogs are around.

• The fox wants to hunt the other animals that live on the property.

In “Predators,” whose “sorry looks” is the speaker watching at the end of the poem?

• the cats'

• the dogs'

• the foxes'

• the farmers'

What is the “bevy of vixen” doing at the end of “Predators”?

• 
  bowing to the domesticated animals

• running back into the wild woods

• running away from the dogs

• eating a small mammal

What is one major theme of “Predators”?

• the natural world vs. the civilized world

• the unending need for nourishment

• humans’ love for their pets

• gardens in springtime

When the speaker in “Predators” says, “I cannot smell the scent of the cat / who slept on this sweater,” with whom or what is she most likely comparing herself?

• felines

• gardners

• wild animals

• pungent herbs

What does the speaker in “Predators” mean when she refers to “my feline and her good dog friends”?

• Both the dogs and the cat want to be like the wild foxes they see.

• She feels a close relationship to the cat than to the dogs.

• The cat only pretends to get along with the dogs.

• The dogs are tame and mean the cat no harm.

To whom does the poem's title -----"Predators"----- most likely refer?

• dogs

• foxes

• the speaker

• the speaker's cat

Which of these statements are true about the stanzas in “Predators”? Choose
TWO options.

• The stanzas are of different lengths.

• Each stanza equals a single sentence.

• Each stanza is about a different topic.

• The stanzas break in the middle of ideas.

• The stanzas present parts of one long sentence.

Read the second stanza in “Predators”:

bows to my feline and her good

dog friends who rule this land. I hoe

and cultivate, find my dead aim

in the trust that many tales spun

What is the name of this type of stanza?

• couplet

• quatrain

• sestet

• octave