WorksheetsMeta-Cognition, Vocabulary, Nouns, Metaphors, Etc.
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 19mins
A noun is a
specific amount or kind
action or state of being
person, place, thing, or idea
way to describe how something
Select the answer that ONLY contains NOUNS.
friendship, jumping, blue
Ms. J, school, desk
New York, swimming, the
sparkly, bravery, orange
Select the sentence that contains TWO NOUNS.
The best kind of candy is Sour Patch Kids.
The best kinds of candy are Sour Patch Kids and Reese's.
Candy is the best.
The best kinds of candy are Sour Patch Kids, Snickers, and Twix.
Select the ABSTRACT noun.
tinfoil
tornado
trust
tutu
"That test was a piece of cake." is an example of _____.
alliteration
personification
metaphor
allusion
Which TWO THINGS are compared in the following sentence? My Grandma’s apple pie is a slice of Heaven.
Grandma & Heaven
apple & pie
pie & slice
pie & Heaven
Which TWO THINGS are compared in the following sentence? "Hope is the anthem of my soul."
Hope & soul
Hope & anthem
Hope & is
anthem & soul
A concrete noun is
a noun that can be identified through one of the five senses.
a noun that can not be identified through one of the five senses.
a word that gives characteristics.
What is a simile?
a comparison using the words "like" or "as"
a comparison that does not use the words "like" or "as"
An adverbial phrase that compares one thing to another
a type of poem in which two things are compared
Whats the extended metaphor .?
Comparing nothing .
Comparing “Hope” with a “bird”
Comparing “Hope” with “feathers”
Sylvia Plath's poem "Metaphors" is comparing nine different things to a ...
tree
pregnant woman
lake
animal
What is NOT a category of metaphors used in the poem "Metaphors"?
food
war
size
movement
A vignette is an account, description, or ______________.
Novel
Episode
Fable
Newspaper
What was the central image of "The Red Wheelbarrow" poem?
Rain
White Chickens
Red wheel barrow
Farm land
The author of "The Red Wheelbarrow" was
an oncologist
a lawyer
a baby doctor
a pharmacist
The two sentences that make up the poem, "The Balloon of the Mind" are...
declarative
exclamatory
imperative
interrogative
In the "Balloon of the Mind" the theme is ...
how difficult it is to do anything when the wind is blowing
how dificult it is to fold things
how difficult it is to put a hot air balloon away
how difficult it is to train the mind to think or write something that is finished, polished, and complete.
The words "mind" and "wind" in the poem, "The Balloon of the Mind" are a(an)
full rhyme
slant or partial rhyme
alliteration
irony
What depends upon a red wheelbarrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens?
the planet Earth
the poet
farmers
consumers
all of the above
When Sonnet #18 compares the speaker's lover to a summer's day, the speaker finds her/him to be
worse
somewhat better
infinitely better
about the same
When the speaker in the poem "The Balloon of the Mind" speaks to his hands, he is using a(an)
metaphor
apostrophe
simile
hyperbole
Which is the most specific item in a cluster with the nucleus term " American Culture"?
education
Christmas traditions
pottery
contemporary deep sea fishing techniques
The character/person created in the statue called "The Thinker" was...
Homer
Shakespeare
Dante
Jesus
Which philosopher is best known for his statement cogito ergo sum?
Rene Discartes
Plato
Socrates
Jean- Paul Sarte
Cognition is the (a) (found in the stream and in your notes)
treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor; flippant or sarcastic
acerbic
callous
defiant
facetious
The Latin word "ergo" means...
whatever
therefore
wassup?
example
What is a group of lines (like a paragraph) in a poem called?
Sestet
Stanza
Metaphor
Forte
What word is defined as "visually descriptive or figurative language"?
Imagery
Hyperbole
Stanza
Alliteration
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...
moons
water
poems
edible plants
Some religions teach that the soul is the source of the ....
body
heart
mind
will
The invention that transformed the writing of poetry in the first two decades of the 20th century was the ...
Marconi radio
telegraph
railroad
typewriter
"Hands, do what you're bid;" This first line of Yeats' poem, "The Balloon of the Mind" is what kind of sentence?
Exclamatory
Interrogative
Imperative
Declarative
"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)
metaphor
apostrophe
simile
personification
"A good time was had by all" is an example of a(an)
passively constructed sentence
actively constructed sentence
The word "glazed" in the poem "The Red Wheelbarrow" is a
present participle
verb
past participle
adverb
A prepositional phrase begins with a preposition and ends with a(an)
subject
object
A four line stanza is called a
sestet
octet
quatrain
couplet
The song structure that Yeats uses in his "Balloon of the Mind" is the
Vignette
villanelle
ballad
epic
The "wind" in the poem "The Balloon of the Mind" can be what in our own lives?
wonderful experiences
the barriers to getting a writing finished
just the feel of the air on your back
In American English, periods and commas always go
outside the quotation marks
inside the quotation marks
underneath the quotation marks
wherever one feels like putting them
When one writes an analysis essay or response, one should avoid using
past tense
the second person pronoun "you"
slang
all of the above
The FS Rule means "free standing," and for fully constructed responses or essays this means that
nobody will understand a single thing you're saying
anyone can read and understand what you are answering since you are describing first the text you are analyzing
you should copy the question all over again as is and then answer
anyone will be able to understand your answers if you can balance the paper so that it stands up by itself
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."
sculpture
stairs
closet
painting
Which sentence below is not a passively constructed sentence?
My wallet was stolen
Some truths are universally acknowledged.
The party was enjoyed by all
Do what the teacher told you to do
