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Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 26mins
THE MEssage about life that the poem or story tells
Ex: friendship, bravery, courage
alliteration
tone
theme
stanza
"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary..."
Example: cat and hat
"I am Super Sampson Simpson,
I'm superlatively strong.
I like to carry elephants,
I do it all day long.
I pick up half a dozen
and hoist them in the air.
It's really somewhat simple,
for I have strength to spare."
uses.
"He was a stainless steel ruler,
tall, straight and always measured in
response."
Predictable
Poor as a church mouse.
strong as an ox,
cute as a button,
smart as a fox.
thin as a toothpick,
white as a ghost,
fit as a fiddle,
dumb as a post.
bald as an eagle,
neat as a pin,
proud as a peacock,
ugly as sin.
When people are talking
you know what they'll say
as soon as they start to
use a cliché.
© 2000 Bruce Lansky,
This poem uses
idioms
metaphors
personification
gustatory imagery
"Diving Board"
By Shel Silverstein
You’ve been up on that diving board
Making sure that it’s nice and straight.
You’ve made sure that it’s not too slick.
You’ve made sure it can stand the weight.
You’ve made sure that the spring is tight.
You’ve made sure that the cloth won’t slip.
You’ve made sure that it bounces right,
And that your toes can get a grip– –
And you’ve been up there since half past five
Doin’ everything … but DIVE.
What does the dive itself symbolize?
fear
courage
stupidity
safety
The "voice" in poetry that talks to the reader, similar to the narrator in fiction, is?
the speaker
the author
the character
the exposition
The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader through descriptive words is...
the mood
the style
the speaker
the tone
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf,
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day
Nothing gold can stay.
What is the central theme of this poem?
