Mod 1 Assessment 30A: New-Read Assessment 2

How is this poem different from prose?

• It ends each line with a rhyming word.

• It repeats a refrain or a chorus.

• It uses line breaks to emphasize ideas.

• It explores a main idea or topic.

How can you tell when a new stanza starts?

• Each stanza ends with a period.

• Each stanza makes a complete sentence.

• A rhyming word ends each stanza.

• A line break with a blank line separates each stanza.

What is the focus of the first stanza?

• Dove shares her own feelings.

• Dove tells what a heart cannot do.

• Dove describes what a heart looks like.

• Dove lists what a heart does in the body.

Which is the best summary of this poem’s purpose?

• to ask a question and give an answer

• to describe a place or a scene

• to discuss an idea

• to tell a story

Read this metaphor from the poem:

"I feel it inside its cage sounding a dull tattoo"

This metaphor means that the speaker feels

• her heart beating in her ribs.

• constant love for her partner.

• how much pain she has had.

• trapped in old feelings.

Choose the answer with the quotation that is correctly punctuated.

• In her poem, Dove writes that the heart is “just a thick clutch / of muscle.”

• In her “poem,” Dove writes that the heart is “just a thick clutch / of muscle.”

• In her poem, Dove writes ‘that the heart is just a thick clutch / of muscle.’

• In her poem, Dove writes that the heart is just a thick clutch / of muscle.

Poems can be described as dramatic, lyric, or narrative.

A dramatic poem is like a little play, with speaking characters.

A lyric poem expresses personal thoughts and feelings.

A narrative poem tells a story.

Which kind of poem is “Heart to Heart”?

• Dramatic

• Lyric

• Free verse

• Narrative

In the poem “Heart to Heart,” does Rita Dove describe a literal heart, a figurative heart, or both?

• Literal heart

• Figurative heart

• Both literal and figurative heart

• Neither