Unit 2 Week 5 Poetry Comprehension

In the poem “The Inventor Thinks Up Helicopters,” what is the poet comparing a helicopter?

• bugs

• pastures

• rugs

• spiders

What type of poem is “The Inventor Thinks Up Helicopters?”

• acrostic

• free verse

• haiku

• limerick

Read the following line from the “The Inventor Thinks Up Helicopters.”

that swerves like a dragonfly

testing his steering,

What type of figurative language does the poet use in these lines?

• metaphor

• onomopia

• personification

• simile

Reread these lines from the poem “Ornithopter.”

But no matter the wind or the weather,

A pilot whose wings swing together

Which does the poet use in these lines of the poem?

• alliteration

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• repetition

How are all the poems ALIKE?

• They are all about flying

• They are all about flying machines.

• They all have similar rhyming patterns.

• They all include similes and metaphors.