Poem Structure
What is the title and author?
I Wandered as a Lonely Cloud by William Wordsworth
Which of the following describes what impresses the speaker?
a. the shining stars
b. the number of daffodils
c. a beautiful lake
d. a single daffodil
b. the number of daffodils
What literary technique is used in this example? "Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before"
Alliteration
What figurative language device is used in this example? "The stars are like a million glittering diamonds in the sky"
Simile
How many lines are in the poem?
24
The speaker thinks about the daffodils when…
a. he is alone.
b. he sees daffodils.
c. he is sad.
d. he is writing poetry.
a. he is alone.
What literary technique is used in this example? "The machine click clacked over the sound of even the thoughts in her head "
Onomatopoeia
What figurative language device is used in this example? "The sun is a runny egg yolk"
Metaphor
How many stanzas are in the poem?
4
Which of the following identifies the theme of the poem?
a. Humans rarely appreciate the beauty of nature that surrounds them.
b. Nature reflects the variety of emotions that people feel.
c. The beauty of nature brings people pleasure.
d. Nature is the best inspiration for hopeful artists.
c. The beauty of nature brings people pleasure.
What literary technique is used in this example? "We stand, as one. We fall, as one. We rise again, as one."
Repetition
What figurative language device is used in this example? "The house stands tall and rigid, with its windows glaring at me as I walk by"
Personification
Why does the poet repeat the word "gazed" in the poem?
a. to ensure the reader understands what the speaker is doing.
b. to rhyme words within the line.
c. to emphasize the relaxed tone of the poem.
d. to express what the author would prefer to be doing.
c. to emphasize the relaxed tone of the poem.
Which detail from the text best supports the theme of the beauty of nature brings people pleasure?
a. "I wandered lonely as a cloud/That floats on high o'er vales and hills," (Lines 1-2)
b. "And then my heart with pleasure fills,/And dances with the daffodils." (Lines 23-24)
c. "I gazed-and gazed-but little thought/What wealth the show to me had brought:" (Lines 17-18)
d. "In vacant or in pensive mood,/They flash upon that inward eye" (Lines 20-21)
b. "And then my heart with pleasure fills,/And dances with the daffodils." (Lines 23-24)
What TWO literary techniques are used in this example?
"How good to lie a little while
And look up through the tree!
The Sky is like a kind big smile
Bent sweetly over me."
Rhyme & Simile
What figurative language device is used in this example? "Let me fix it up. This old car is about to meet its fairy godmother and end up at the ball in a ballgown and glass slippers."
Allusion
How do the ideas build from the first to last stanza?
The first stanza introduces the idea of loneliness and everything builds to the last stanza describing how one can never be sad when surrounded by the beauty of nature (theme)
How does the poet's use of sound influence the mood of the poem?
a. The poet uses a predictable rhyme scheme to create a cheerful mood.
b. The poet uses free verse to create a serious mood.
c. The poet uses repetition to develop the feeling that nature is constant.
d. The poet emphasizes the pleasures of nature through alliteration.
a. The poet uses a predictable rhyme scheme to create a cheerful mood.
Why would the poet use only two words in the second line of this poem?
The thoughts whirled and twirled and swirled until
They stopped.
To emphasize the word 'stopped.'
What figurative language device would be used in an image of a butterfly landing on a skull?
Juxtaposition