Savvas Poetry Collection

You dug your hands into my pale, melting fur. To which senses does this image most appeal? Choose two options.

• sight

• taste

• smell

• touch

• sound

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CCSS.RI.8.4

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Which lines from “The Raven” best demonstrate the first-person point of view?

• While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, / As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

• In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore; / Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he.…

• On the cushion’s velvet lining that the lamplight gloated o’er, / But whose velvet violet lining with the lamplight gloating o’er,

• Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful disaster / Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore.…

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CCSS.RL.1.6

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CCSS.RL.8.6

If “beware: do not read this poem” were told by the woman from a first-person point of view, what more might the reader learn about her actions?

• The reader might learn how a poem is like a mirror.

• The reader might learn what the villagers thought of the woman.

• The reader might learn where all of the mirrors originally came from.

• The reader might learn what happens to the people she pulls into the mirror.

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CCSS.RL.1.6

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CCSS.RL.8.6

In “Fences,” what point is the poet making when the mother repeats, “It’s their beach. / It’s their beach”?

• It is sad to see poor people who don't feel they can use their own beach.

• It is unusual to see fences on the beach.

• It tells the story of children playing in the sand.

• It shows the difference between a lake beachfront and an ocean beachfront.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What is a way in which “Sonnet, With Bird” departs from traditional sonnet form?

• Its fourteen lines run together without line breaks.

• It has thirteen lines.

• Its fourteen lines with no theme.

• Its twelve lines that run together.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

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What is a sonnet?

• four lines in a poem that rhyme

• a twelve-line poem that contains three line stanzas

• a poem with rhyme and is lyrical

• a fourteen-line poem that contains three four-line stanzas and final two-line stanza

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CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Both “Sonnet, With Bird” and “Elliptical” don't have the basic features of traditional poetry but are classified as prose poems. Which characteristic shows why they are still considered poems?

• they rhyme

• they have the same theme

• they suggest meanings rather than stating them directly.

• they are not poems

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.7

CCSS.RI.11-12.7

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CCSS.RL.8.5

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Which poetic device is most commonly used in the 'Savvas Poetry Collection' to create rhythm?

• A) Alliteration

• B) Metaphor

• C) Simile

• D) Onomatopoeia

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

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CCSS.RL.9-10.9

In the 'Savvas Poetry Collection', which poem focuses on the theme of nature's beauty?

• A) 'Whispers of the Wind'

• B) 'Urban Jungle'

• C) 'Concrete Dreams'

• D) 'City Lights'

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CCSS.RL.11-12.11

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

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What is the primary mood conveyed in the poem 'Silent Echoes' from the 'Savvas Poetry Collection'?

• A) Joyful

• B) Melancholic

• C) Angry

• D) Excited

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

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