Understanding Poetry

The fog comes/ on little cat feet/ It sits/ looking over the harbor and city/ on silent haunches/ and then moves on.

What figurative language is being used here?

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Repetition

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The fog comes/ on little cat feet/ It sits/ looking over the harbor and city/ on silent haunches/ and then moves on. Why would the poet liken the fog to a cat? What does this accomplish?

• It provides a nice image for the reader about a Cat Cloud.

• To give the fog characteristics since fog is usually boring.

• To show that fog and cats like the same kinds of things.

• To mimic how cats just come and go nonchalantly

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At the end of the poem why would the speaker weep for the cocoons demise?

• Because she is sad about having to find a new home

• Because she is upset that she has to go out into the world

• Because she prefers being safe to being free.

• Because she is conflicted about the dangers of freedom and the safety of being caged.

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What is the overall theme of the poem "Cocoon" by Mavash Sabet

• Never leave a sure thing for something that COULD be good.

• Freedom can be uncomfortable but it is worth it.

• Be careful what you wish for

• Nobody should ever be held captive.

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Match the following terms with their definitions.

• the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem

• consonance

• the repetition of consonant sounds within words

• rhyme scheme

• when the meaning of the word is reflected in its sound

• onomatopoeia

• the repetition of vowel sounds within words

• alliteration

• the repetition of initial consonant sounds in words

• assonance

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Literary works focused on the expression of feelings and ideas through the use of a distinctive style that is often rhythmic and may have elements such as meter, rhyme, and stanzas​ (a)  

• poetry

• speaker

• tone

• mood

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The ​ (a)   of a poem is the unit of rhythm, or the pattern of the beats (syllables)

• meter

• rhythm

• verse

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Match the following descriptions of poetic elements with the correct term.

• A common misconception about relying on visual imagery.

• It uses a specific rhyme scheme.

• Mason's belief about the rhythm of lines with ten syllables each.

• It consists of lines with ten syllables each.

• Zoe's argument about a specific rhyme scheme.

• It emphasizes rhyming couplets.

• Michael's argument about emphasizing rhyming couplets.

• It relies on visual imagery.

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Match the following poems to the definitions.

• short, funny poem. Mother Goose songs. Ex: Hickory, Dickory, Dock.

• Rhyming Poem

• a poem with no rhymes or even lines.

• Free Verse

• a poem that rhymes.

• Haiku

• 3 lined Japanese poem. Follows the rule 5-7-5.

• Limerick Poem

• a poem that tells a story.

• Narrative poem

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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair. It’s had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up, And places with no carpet on the floor— Bare. Why would the author place the word "Bare" on a line all on its own?

• It represents everything the speaker lacked in her life

• It showcases the meaning of the word without telling us what it means.

• It shows how having nothing impacted the speaker's life.

• All of the above.

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