The poet includes the details in lines 15-26 to appeal mostly to the sense of (a)   .

• sight
• taste
• touch
• smell

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CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.1.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

The poet uses similes in the first stanza to emphasize that

• the boy is having a good time

• the boy is high up in the air

• the boy lives somewhere that is very flat

• the boy's eyesight is blurred from the clouds

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

In each pair of stanzas, the poet includes details to contrast

• the feeling of boredom with the feeling of excitement

• being scared with being safe

• flying with walking

• being in the air with being on the ground

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CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.K.3

Read the dictionary entry:

cast

1. 1. to throw something

2. 2. to shed something

3. 3. to drop something

4. 4. to predict someone's future

Which meaning best fits the way cast is used in line 7?

• meaning 1

• meaning 2

• meaning 3

• meaning 4

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CCSS.RI.1.4

CCSS.RI.2.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

In line 15, when the poet describes the air as "as solid as water," the reader knows that (a)  

• it was difficult to move through
• it protected the boy from falling
• it moved back and forth

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CCSS.RL.1.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

Which lines shows the boy's loneliness ​ (a)  

• He could not hear his friend calling him.
• He heard the school bus as it grumbled.
• He felt the sun, enormously bright and warm

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CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Pop! went the top of the soda bottle is an example of (a)   .

• simile
• alliteration
• onomatopeia
• idiom

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Identify the type of figurative language:

Jacob was a perfect angel during school.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• idiom

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Identify the type of figurative language:

The baby was as light as a feather when I picked him up.

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• idiom

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Identify the type of figurative language:

It was so foggy you could cut through it with a knife.

• idiom

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A