7th grade ELA Unit 3 Post-Test Study Session

Read “A Book” by Emily Dickinson. What is the main idea of the poem?

There is no Frigate like a Book

To take us Lands away

Nor any Coursers like a Page

Of prancing Poetry—

This Traverse may the poorest take

Without oppress of Toll—

How frugal is the Chariot

That bears the Human Soul—

• Ships are great for traveling around the world.

• Poetry is too expensive for the common person to afford.

• Reading is a good activity to undertake while traveling.

• Books open up new worlds to all readers, rich or poor.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

What figure of speech does the following line from Robert Frost’s “Nothing Gold Can Stay” contain?

Her hardest hue to hold.

• alliteration

• simile

• allusion

• metaphor

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

What is the meter?

I’m going out to clean the pasture spring;

I’ll only stop to rake the leaves away,

• trochaic trimeter

• trochaic hexameter

• iambic pentameter

• iambic tetrameter

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

What is the meter in the following excerpt from “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll?

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe

• iambic tetrameter

• iambic

• iambic trimeter

• trochaic tetrameter

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

What foot pattern does Henry Wordsworth Longfellow use in this excerpt from “The Song of Hiawatha”?

With their frequent repetitions,

And their wild reverberations

• iamb (an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable)

• trochee (a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable)

• anapest (two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable)

• dactyl (a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables)

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

How many times does the pattern repeat in a trimeter?

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CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

Define sonnet.

• a Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world.

• a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.

• a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. Traditional ballads are typically of unknown authorship, having been passed on orally from one generation to the next as part of the folk culture.

• a lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter.

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

Which two types of stanzas are used in a Petrarchan sonnet?

• an octave

• a tercet

• a sestet

• a quatrain

• a couplet

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CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

Which two elements of drama divide the play and indicate shifts in location or scenery?

• stage directions

• act

• scene

• monologue

• character

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.7

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.7

Lisa was watching a TV show that was based on a play she had seen performed a few years earlier. She noticed that compared to the TV show, the actors in the play were better at using their voice to convey their thoughts and feelings. Based on this observation, which of the following elements do the actors in the TV show need to improve?

• emoting

• delivering

• projecting

• line reading

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3