Poetry Vocabulary

Which of the following pairs of words rhyme?

• Plane and Chair

• Tree and Sky

• Cat and Hat

• Cough and Dough

What are stanzas?

• The poem's speaker

• The poem's groups of lines

• The poem's central ideas

• The poem's best rhymes

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CCSS.RL.4.5

Which of the following is not effective imagery?

• Meandering trails in a dense, yellow forest

• Flowers, bright and blue, on a hill

• Small waves lapping on a white, sandy beach

• Scary houses that really frighten people

Which of the following symbols best symbolizes love?

• Coffee Mugs

• The American Flag

• Roses

• Pens and Pencils

Which of the following is a metaphor?

• That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour.

• And we are here as on a darkling plain / Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,

• Continuous as the stars that shine / And twinkle on the milky way,

• All the world [is] a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

Which of the following is a simile?

• Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

• All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

• What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up / like a raisin in the sun?

• Chaos is a friend of mine.

Which of the following is a literal statement?

• My homework is going to take forever.

• I have a few hours of homework to do.

• I have so much homework that I am going to explode!

• I have eight thousand hours of homework to do.

Which of the following is a figurative statement?

• Opportunity knocked at her door.

• She was on The Voice: a famous TV show.

• She sold over one hundred thousand albums.

• According to data available through Spotify, she is one of the most popular artists in America.

What is the point of view found in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)?

• Scout; First-Person

• Atticus; First-Person

• Harper Lee; Third-Person

• Tom Robinson; First-Person

Which of the following could be a theme?

• Identity

• Struggle

• Even the most famous and popular among us will one day be forgotten.

• The Relationship between the Individual and Society