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Poetry Pre-Assessment

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Question 1

1.

Which line from the poem "Wintermelt" tells about flowers blooming?

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6

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8

Question 2

2.

In the poem "Wintermelt," words like "bursting" and "breaking" make spring seem like ---

a party

an explosion

a quiet event

a sport

Question 3

3.

In "Wintermelt," lines 13-16 are most likely to make the reader feel ---

calm

afraid

curious

excited

Question 4

4.

Which rhyme scheme is used in the poem "Canoe"?

aabb

abab

abba

abca

Question 5

5.

Lines 9-12 in the poem "Canoe" describe ---

a flight of imagination

an invitation to the reader

an actual event

a plan for summer vacation

Question 6

6.

If the poet who wrote "Canoe" had wanted to find another word to use in place of story, which of these sources would have been most helpful?

Encyclopedia

Thesaurus

Dictionary

Atlas

Question 7

7.

We can tell that these poems are not free verse because they both have ---

punctuation marks

titles

rhyming words

capital letters

Question 8

8.

The poets wrote these poems mostly to ---

explain

persuade

inform

entertain