"Introduction to Poetry"

How many stanzas are in the poem?

• 6 stanzas
• 7 stanzas
• 16 stanzas
• 1 stanza

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CCSS.RL.4.5

What is the rhyme scheme of this poem?

• aabb
• abcd
• abab
• aaaa

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CCSS.RL.4.5

A poem that has no rhyming is called

• free verse
• alliteration
• assonance
• rhythm

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CCSS.RL.4.5

Which paraphrase is the closest to lines 5 & 6?  
"I say drop a mouse into a poem
and watch him probe his way out,"

• a mouse goes through a maze 
• a poem is like a maze 
• put a mouse into a poem and try to watch him figure his way out 
• a mouse goes into a poem

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CCSS.SL.4.2

In the first stanza the narrator is comparing the poem to a color slide.  This is an example of which poetic device?

• hyperbole
• alliteration
• metaphor
• simile

When the author says, "all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it," he is using 

• personification
• hyperbole
• alliteration
• paraphrase

Annotating means

• paraphrasing, marking the text, circling words, underlining things that seem important
• Writing a gist statement, asking questions
•  none of these
• all of these

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CCSS.SL.4.2

Words or phrases that create a picture in the readers' mind

• allusion
• imagery
• alliteration
• stanza

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CCSS.L.4.5A

The ideas or feelings associated with a word 

• figurative language
• imagery
• dennotation
• connotation

Writing that is not meant to be interpreted literally

• imagery
• figurative language
• alliteration
• rhythm

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.4.5B