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Unit 4 Week 5 Poetry

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 18mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

How can we take responsibility?

4 lines
2.

What is a synonym for obligation?

4 lines
3.

Who are you answerable to you? Why?

4 lines
4.

Where might you wait in a lounge?

4 lines
5.

Why is the correct proportion important when painting a realistic picture?

4 lines
6.

How is a free verse poem different from a traditional poem?

4 lines
7.

Which of the following uses alliteration?

a)

Sheep should sled in a shed.

b)

The sheep were in the field.

c)

The light of the fire is a sight.

d)

Go slow over the road.

8.

Which of the following uses assonance?

a)

Sheep should sled in a shed.

b)

The sheep were in the field.

c)

The light of the fire is a sight.

d)

He is to slow today.

9.

Other than plot, what other elements would you expect to find in a narrative poem?

4 lines
10.

What examples of alliteration can you find in the following lines?

"By now you're wondering, worrying

Why I've seemed so weird this week

-- not calling you, not texting,

Slipping silently past you in the hall

at school,

Pretending to listen to music or

checking my watch."

4 lines
11.

What example of assonance can you find in the following lines?

"By now you're wondering, worrying

Why I've seemed so weird this week

-- not calling you, not texting,

Slipping silently past you in the hall

at school,

Pretending to listen to music or

checking my watch."

4 lines
12.

What is the meaning of the idiom in the following sentence?


"I've put up posters and pounded the pavement for hours, wising I had gotten that back gate fixed faster."

a)

running fast

b)

walked long and hard

c)

hit the pavement with my fist

13.

What is the meaning of the idiom in the following sentence?


"She smiled and said that big changes will be just around the corner."

a)

coming very soon

b)

something will appear around the corner of the building

c)

keep moving until we change.

14.

How are “This Is Just to Say” and “to Mrs. Garcia, in the office” alike?

a)

They are the same length.

b)

They are written by the same poet.

c)

In both, the poet is apologizing for something.

d)

In both, the poet is comparing something to food.

15.

What do “to Mrs. Garcia, in the office” and “to Thomas, Dear Thomas” do?

a)

tell a story

b)

explain a process

c)

compare similar things

d)

persuade the reader to do something

16.

What type of poem is “to Mrs. Garcia, in the office?”

a)

free verse

b)

lyric

c)

quatrain

d)

sonnet

17.

Reread “to Thomas, Dear Thomas.” Which line contains an idiom?

a)

Of course I forgive you.

b)

Thank you for your poem

c)

But I still have to call your mother.

d)

stealing our hearts, and our doughnuts, too.

18.

Where do the poems “to Mrs. Garcia, in the office” and “to Thomas, Dear Thomas” take place?

a)

at a park

b)

at a school

c)

at an office

d)

at a shopping mall

19.

What do these poems you have read tell you about being answerable for your actions?

4 lines
20.

Which sentence best tells the message about taking responsibility?

a)

“If we work fast, I can get you to the go-kart park before the party’s over,” she promised me.

b)

“And just think how glad Grandma and Grandpa will be when they get here and everything is just right!”

c)

“No problem,” I said, and I was surprised to realize that I meant it.

d)

“When you’re done with the lasagna, Minna and I will come in and make the salad.” . . .