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Meta-Cognition, Vocabulary, Nouns, Metaphors, Etc.

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 19mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A noun is a

a)

specific amount or kind

b)

action or state of being

c)

person, place, thing, or idea

d)

way to describe how something

2.

Select the answer that ONLY contains NOUNS.

a)

friendship, jumping, blue

b)

Ms. J, school, desk

c)

New York, swimming, the

d)

sparkly, bravery, orange

3.

Select the sentence that contains TWO NOUNS.

a)

The best kind of candy is Sour Patch Kids.

b)

The best kinds of candy are Sour Patch Kids and Reese's.

c)

Candy is the best.

d)

The best kinds of candy are Sour Patch Kids, Snickers, and Twix.

4.

Select the ABSTRACT noun.

a)

tinfoil

b)

tornado

c)

trust

d)

tutu

5.

"That test was a piece of cake." is an example of _____.

a)

alliteration

b)

personification

c)

metaphor

d)

allusion

6.

Which TWO THINGS are compared in the following sentence? My Grandma’s apple pie is a slice of Heaven.

a)

Grandma & Heaven

b)

apple & pie

c)

pie & slice

d)

pie & Heaven

7.

Which TWO THINGS are compared in the following sentence? "Hope is the anthem of my soul."

a)

Hope & soul

b)

Hope & anthem

c)

Hope & is

d)

anthem & soul

8.

A concrete noun is

a)

a noun that can be identified through one of the five senses.

b)

a noun that can not be identified through one of the five senses.

c)

a word that gives characteristics.

9.

What is a simile?

a)

a comparison using the words "like" or "as"

b)

a comparison that does not use the words "like" or "as"

c)

An adverbial phrase that compares one thing to another

d)

a type of poem in which two things are compared

10.

Whats the extended metaphor .?

a)

Comparing nothing .

b)

Comparing “Hope” with a “bird”

c)

Comparing “Hope” with “feathers”

11.
A sonnet contains _____ lines. 
a)
12
b)
4
c)
14
d)
16
12.
Shakespeare's sonnet 18 compares a girl to..
a)
spring day
b)
summer's day
c)
nature
d)
his heartbeat 
13.
What is the metaphor in Sonnet 18?
a)
Comparing Shakespeare to his beloved
b)
Comparing his beloved to a summer's day
c)
Comparing Shakepeare to a summer's day
d)
Comparing his beloved to time
14.

Sylvia Plath's poem "Metaphors" is comparing nine different things to a ...

a)

tree

b)

pregnant woman

c)

lake

d)

animal

15.

What is NOT a category of metaphors used in the poem "Metaphors"?

a)

food

b)

war

c)

size

d)

movement

16.

A vignette is an account, description, or ______________.

a)

Novel

b)

Episode

c)

Fable

d)

Newspaper

17.
What is the theme of this story?
a)
Don't steal
b)
Look both ways before crossing the street. 
c)
Necessity is the mother of invention. 
d)
One good turn deserves another.
18.
What is the theme of this story? 
a)
Necessity is the mother of invention.
b)
Don't steal.
c)
Respect your elders.
d)
Slowly but surely wins the race.
19.

What was the central image of "The Red Wheelbarrow" poem?

a)

Rain

b)

White Chickens

c)

Red wheel barrow

d)

Farm land

20.

The author of "The Red Wheelbarrow" was

a)

an oncologist

b)

a lawyer

c)

a baby doctor

d)

a pharmacist

21.

The two sentences that make up the poem, "The Balloon of the Mind" are...

a)

declarative

b)

exclamatory

c)

imperative

d)

interrogative

22.

In the "Balloon of the Mind" the theme is ...

a)

how difficult it is to do anything when the wind is blowing

b)

how dificult it is to fold things

c)

how difficult it is to put a hot air balloon away

d)

how difficult it is to train the mind to think or write something that is finished, polished, and complete.

23.

The words "mind" and "wind" in the poem, "The Balloon of the Mind" are a(an)

a)

full rhyme

b)

slant or partial rhyme

c)

alliteration

d)

irony

24.

What depends upon a red wheelbarrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens?

a)

the planet Earth

b)

the poet

c)

farmers

d)

consumers

e)

all of the above

25.

When Sonnet #18 compares the speaker's lover to a summer's day, the speaker finds her/him to be

a)

worse

b)

somewhat better

c)

infinitely better

d)

about the same

26.

When the speaker in the poem "The Balloon of the Mind" speaks to his hands, he is using a(an)

a)

metaphor

b)

apostrophe

c)

simile

d)

hyperbole

27.

Which is the most specific item in a cluster with the nucleus term " American Culture"?

a)

education

b)

Christmas traditions

c)

pottery

d)

contemporary deep sea fishing techniques

28.

The character/person created in the statue called "The Thinker" was...

a)

Homer

b)

Shakespeare

c)

Dante

d)

Jesus

29.

Which philosopher is best known for his statement cogito ergo sum?

a)

Rene Discartes

b)

Plato

c)

Socrates

d)

Jean- Paul Sarte

30.

Cognition is the (a)   (found in the stream and in your notes)

31.

treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor; flippant or sarcastic

a)

acerbic

b)

callous

c)

defiant

d)

facetious

32.

The Latin word "ergo" means...

a)

whatever

b)

therefore

c)

wassup?

d)

example

33.

What is a group of lines (like a paragraph) in a poem called?

a)

Sestet

b)

Stanza

c)

Metaphor

d)

Forte

34.

What word is defined as "visually descriptive or figurative language"?

a)

Imagery

b)

Hyperbole

c)

Stanza

d)

Alliteration

35.

From the poem "The Red Wheelbarrow" we could infer that what carbon based life depends when we are looking for another planet to inhabit is the existence of...

a)

moons

b)

water

c)

poems

d)

edible plants

36.

Some religions teach that the soul is the source of the ....

a)

body

b)

heart

c)

mind

d)

will

37.

The invention that transformed the writing of poetry in the first two decades of the 20th century was the ...

a)

Marconi radio

b)

telegraph

c)

railroad

d)

typewriter

38.

"Hands, do what you're bid;" This first line of Yeats' poem, "The Balloon of the Mind" is what kind of sentence?

a)

Exclamatory

b)

Interrogative

c)

Imperative

d)

Declarative

39.

"Hands, do what you're bid;" This word "Hands" in the first line of Yeats's poem "The Balloon of the Mind" is an example of a(an)

a)

metaphor

b)

apostrophe

c)

simile

d)

personification

40.

"A good time was had by all" is an example of a(an)

a)

passively constructed sentence

b)

actively constructed sentence

41.

The word "glazed" in the poem "The Red Wheelbarrow" is a

a)

present participle

b)

verb

c)

past participle

d)

adverb

42.

A prepositional phrase begins with a preposition and ends with a(an)

a)

subject

b)

object

43.

A four line stanza is called a

a)

sestet

b)

octet

c)

quatrain

d)

couplet

44.

The song structure that Yeats uses in his "Balloon of the Mind" is the

a)

Vignette

b)

villanelle

c)

ballad

d)

epic

45.

The "wind" in the poem "The Balloon of the Mind" can be what in our own lives?

a)

wonderful experiences

b)

the barriers to getting a writing finished

c)

just the feel of the air on your back

46.

In American English, periods and commas always go

a)

outside the quotation marks

b)

inside the quotation marks

c)

underneath the quotation marks

d)

wherever one feels like putting them

47.

When one writes an analysis essay or response, one should avoid using

a)

past tense

b)

the second person pronoun "you"

c)

slang

d)

all of the above

48.

The FS Rule means "free standing," and for fully constructed responses or essays this means that

a)

nobody will understand a single thing you're saying

b)

anyone can read and understand what you are answering since you are describing first the text you are analyzing

c)

you should copy the question all over again as is and then answer

d)

anyone will be able to understand your answers if you can balance the paper so that it stands up by itself

49.

The grammatical subject of this sentence is what? "The forgotten painting under the stairs, inside the closet, and next to the wooden sculpture of a racoon remained hidden for years."

a)

sculpture

b)

stairs

c)

closet

d)

painting

50.

Which sentence below is not a passively constructed sentence?

a)

My wallet was stolen

b)

Some truths are universally acknowledged.

c)

The party was enjoyed by all

d)

Do what the teacher told you to do