WorksheetsPoetry | "Bird" by Liz Berry
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 40mins
What does a lyric poem express?
gloomy times and bad feelings
hard times and hurt feelings
happy times and exciting feelings
personal thoughts and feelings
Which vocabulary word is being defined?
The beat created by the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
meter
simile
rhythm
alliteration
"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary..."
A form of poetry where a single speaker expresses his/her thoughts or feelings.
Lyric Poetry
Couplet
Internal Rhyme
Rhyme Scheme
The voice that "talks" to the reader.
Stanza
Internal Rhyme
End Rhyme
Speaker
Who is the poet of "Bird"?
James Barry
Chuck Berry
Liz Berry
Karen Smith
Who is the speaker in the poem "Bird"?
A girl that loves bids.
A girl that's growing to an adult.
A girl that is learning to fly.
A girl with wings and a beak.
What happens to the speaker in the opening stanzas?
The speaker is getting ready to "transform" to a bird.
The speaker is bird watching.
The speaker wants to learn how to fly.
The speaker is kneeling.
In line 4, the word charm is used to emphasize what?
The speaker has a necklace.
It's night and the birds are going to sleep.
The speaker is charming.
It's dawn and birds are singing outside.
After reading the simile: "My heart beat like a wing." in line 10, the reader can conclude that____________________.
The speaker is growing wings.
The speaker is anxious and excited.
The speaker is sad and gloomy.
The speaker has a heart condition.
"I shed my nightdress to the drowning arms of the dark," ,
is an example of _______________________.
Hyperbole
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Which type of imagery is used by the poet in line 7: "Singing, they came:"?
Visual Imagery
Auditory Imagery
Gustatory Imagery
Tactile Imagery
What is the message conveyed by the poet in lines 10 - 20?
The speaker is feels pain in her transformation.
The speaker is changes her nightdress.
The speaker feels her body change.
The speaker is afraid of changing.
In lines 8 - 9, throstles, jenny wrens, jack squalors are _______________.
small song birds
types of songs
a group of animals
a gentle breeze
In line 20 the word,
"silence"
is by itself.
What is the meaning of the word in this line?
The poet emphasizes the idea of the birds shutting up.
The poet emphasizes the speakers loosing her voice.
The poet emphasizes the idea of a deep powerful silence.
None of the above!
Which type of imagery is used by the poet in line 18: "My feet callousing to knuckly claws" ?
Visual Imagery
Auditory Imagery
Gustatory Imagery
Tactile Imagery
Read the definitions of the word "bare":
1
: not having a covering
2
: not covered by clothing, shoes, a hat, etc.
3
: not covered by leaves, grass, trees, or plants
Which definition best fits the word used in line 13?
1
2
3
"to watch my fingers jewelling like ten hummingbirds" ,
is an example of _______________________.
Hyperbole
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
"I spread my flight greedy arms'.
What effect do these spaces have on the way you read the poem?
It makes the reader slowdown and helps you visualize the speaker opening her arms and becoming wings.
It makes the reader read faster and helps you visualize the speaker hugging the birds.
It makes the creates suspense.
It was just a grammatical error! No big deal!
What is an Extended Metaphor .?
An allegory
A comparison
A particularly long sentence with a metaphor in it .
A metaphor which is developed in detail and throughout lines and sentences or line in a poem .
