Review- Paired Passage (Poem/Novel Excerpt)

The fact that the poem has 14 lines with a rhymed couplet at the end identifies it is a________.

• narrative poem (tells a story)

• sonnet (rhymes and has 14 lines)

• haiku (a short, unrhymed Japanese poem that is made up of three lines and 17 syllables

• lyric poem (a short, emotional poem that expresses the speaker's feelings and thoughts

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TEKS.ELA.7.8B

Which two lines from the poem best create an uplifting tone?

• Within a thick and spreading hawthorn bush (line 1)

• Sing hymns to sunrise, and I drank the sound (line 4)

• I watched her secrets toil (work extremely hard) from day to day (line 6)

• And by and by, like heath-bells gilt (make someone feel guilty) with dew (line 9)

• Glad as the sunshine and the laughing sky (line 14)

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TEKS.ELA.7.9F

Read line 5 from the poem.

With joy; and often, and intruding guest,

What is the effect of the sentence?

• It urges the reader to read the line faster.

• It causes the word joy to stand out.

• It signals a new idea unrelated to joy.

• It changes the meter of the line.

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TEKS.ELA.7.8B

Read line 10 from the poem.

There lay her shining eggs, as bright as flowers.

Why does the author create imagery with words such as shining and bright?

• to inform readers that it's a sunny day

• to emphasize that the eggs have just been laid

• to emphasize the joy and happiness of new life

• to inform readers that the eggs are especially shiny

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TEKS.ELA.7.9F

What is revealed in the couplet at the very end of the poem?

• Birds everywhere are chirping and flying

• The sun's rays are shining through the clouds.

• The thrush's chick have hatched.

• The sky is making happy noises.

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TEKS.ELA.7.8B

What is the effect of the different rhyme scheme in the last two lines of the poem?

• It leaves the reader wanting to read more.

• It suggests the speaker is singing.

• It causes the reader to take noticed.

• It alters the mood of the poem.

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TEKS.ELA.7.8B

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Part A

What is the overall theme of the novel excerpt?

• Laughter is the best medicine.

• Trees are the most beautiful part of nature.

• Imagination is the only escape from loneliness.

• People want to feel like they belong somewhere.

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TEKS.ELA.7.7A

Part B

Which quotation from paragraph 15 of the novel excerpt best supports the answer in Part A about the theme.

• “Oh, I don’t mean just the tree; of course it’s lovely—yes, it’s radiantly lovely—it blooms as if it meant it—but I meant everything, the garden and the orchard and the brook and the woods, the whole big dear world.”

• “And I can hear the brook laughing all the way up here. Have you ever noticed what cheerful things brooks are? They’re always laughing.”

•        “I’ve just been imagining that it was really me you wanted after all and that I was to stay here for ever and ever. It was a great comfort while it lasted.”

• “But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.”

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TEKS.ELA.7.7A

How does the setting of the novel excerpt influence its theme?

• by describing a garden with lilac trees

   

• by mentioning a brook near Green Gables

• by establishing that it’s a place Anne loves

•   by indicating that Green Gables is beautiful

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TEKS.ELA.7.7A

Read the following sentence from paragraph 1 of the novel excerpt.

It was broad daylight when Anne awoke and sat up in bed, staring confusedly at the window through which a flood of cheery sunshine was pouring and outside of which something white and feathery waved across glimpses of blue sky.

Why does the author use the metaphor of a flood to describe the sunshine?

• to compare the sunshine to water

•   to suggest Anne’s love of the sunshine

• to illustrate the beauty of Green Gables

• to emphasize the abundance of the sunshine

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TEKS.ELA.7.9D