Time Poems

What is Length if Time" mostly about?

• How we experience time

• How games can seem to last all day.

• How hard it is to wait for dinner

• How time moves faster as we grow older.

Why are the words Hurrylikethis run together in line 8 of "Lengths of Time?"

• To confuse the reader

• To show that poets don't know how to spell

• To show that the older you get, the less you know.

• To emphasize how time sometimes seems to move quickly

Carly has had the experience of waiting for the final bell to ring on the last day of school. How would this experience most likely help her to understand "Lengths of time?"

• She is likely to understand the poet's idea that "minutes are minutes"

• She is likely to understand what the poet means in saying that time can "plod, plod, slow."

• She is likely to understand how much fun it is to play a game in the park.

• She is likely to understand how time can seem to go quickly when a person is having fun.

In "Lengths of Time," why does the poet use repetition in line 12?

• To emphasize how slowly time can seem to move

• To show how long it takes for a snail to enter his house

• To emphasize how fast time moves when you're hungry

• To show how fast a snail can move once it really gets going.

"Lengths of Time" could best be described as a lyrical poem because

• It is a lengthy poem that tells a story

• It is free from a fixed pattern of rhythm or rhyme

• It has a playful tone created through humor and dialect

• It has a musical quality created through rhyme and rhythms.

In the first stanza of "Turning Twelve," what is the author's purpose in using a simile to compare an hour to an ice cube?

• To show that the speaker's birthday is in the spring

• To show how chilly his bedroom is on a spring evening

• To show that nights pass much more quickly than days

• to show how slowly the hours pass on the night before his birthday,

In "Turning Twelve," the speaker says "then the day comes, and - just like that - it's over." How is this line similar to ideas expressed in the third stanza of "Lengths of Time?"

• Both show that time seems to stand still when you spend a day in bed

• Both show that time seems to fly when you're reading a really good book.

• Both show that time seems to pass quickly when you are enjoying yourself

• Both show that the best way to make time pass quickly is to spend a day in the park.

Which of the following conclusions about "Turning Twelve" is supported by the poem?

• THe speaker liked being eleven, but is worried his twelfth year will be boring

• The best way to spend your time is by doing as little as possible so the time doesn't go so fast

• Though the speaker's thirteenth birthday seems far off, it will come more quickly than he thinks.

• The speaker thinks he's been wasting too much time, so he plans to read a lot of big books in the future.

What lesson could you learn from reading both poems?

• Time seems to move more slowly each year a person lives

• Time is measured scientifically, and all minutes and hours are equal.

• Time can seem to move slowly or quickly depending on the situation

• Time seems to move slowly only when you are waiting for your birthday.