Imagery 1
Coral is far more red than her lips’ red;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
The author likely believes that the woman is ___.
Unattractive
They walk in awful splendor, regal yet, wearing their crimes like rich and kingly capes.
The author uses imagery to convey that the criminals feel ___ of their crimes.
A) Proud
B) Guilty
B) Embarrassed
D) Appreciative
A) Proud
When the recession hit, it was necessary that the family cut corners to make ends meet.
What is a change the family needs to make to "cut corners"? (Idiom)
To do something the cheapest way; to reduce their spending
The sculptor's hands fluttered like hummingbirds.
This similie expresses that the sculptor is:
A) Beautiful & Talented
B) Careful & Cautious
C) Loving & Sweet
D) Skilled & Quick
D) Skilled and quick
I love to write. Day and night. What would my heart do. But cry, sigh, and be blue. If I could not write
Writing feels good. And I know it should. Who could have knew. That what I do. Is write, write, write.
(-"I Love to Write Poems," Unknown)
How many Stanzas does this poem contain?
There are 2 stanzas
Like winged stars the fire-flies flash and glance,
Pale in the open moonshine.
From his/her description, how does the author likely feel about the fire-flies?
A) They are ELUSIVE
B) They are CAPTIVATING
C) They are AMIABLE
D) They are INNOCENT
B) They are captivating
The dainty elephant shocked the herd when a foghorn noise escaped from her trunk.
This sentence describes which sense(s)?
A) Sight B) Sight & Sound C) Smell & Sound D) Sound
B) Sight & Sound
Sight ("dainty"), Sound ("foghorn" - foghorns are loud)
"Alan’s jokes were like flat soda to the children."
From this simile, we can infer that the children feel ___ about Alan's jokes.
unamused, unimpressed, unaffected, disinterested, apathetic
The robins are as thick today as flakes of snow were yesterday.
The author uses this simile to convey that the robins:
A) Are plentiful in the sky B) Are as fat as snowflakes C) Love the cold D) Are white like snow
A) Are plentiful in the sky
What rhyme scheme does a limerick have?
AABBA
“While ... clouds bloom the soft-dying day,
And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue"
We can infer that this scene takes place:
A) At sunrise B) Afternoon C) At sunset D) Night
C) At sunset ("soft-dying day")
"I stayed hunkered down there ... and listened to his footsteps. I heard him open [the door] and step outside, and when he did my eyes sensed the explosion of light the door let in even though I had them closed just as tight as I could."
The author is trying to convey what MOOD for the reader?
A) Excitement B) Gloom C) Humor D) Suspense
D) Suspense
I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you
Till China and Africa meet
(“As I Walked One Evening” by W.H. Auden)
These lines contain what type(s) of figurative language?
Will accept refrain, hyperbole, and/or personification
"His direct, often abrasive approach will doubtless ruffle a few feathers."
What can you infer about the meaning of the idiom, "ruffle a few feathers?"
To become very angry, nervous, or upset.
"The boy ate taffy, an elephant ear, and a waffle at the carnival!"
Contains which of the following? A) Consonance B) Limerick C) Allusion D) Personification
A) Consonance ("f" sound)
"A new road to freedom passes through this valley of death."
From this description, we can infer that:
A) Freedom is attainable, but not without hardship
B) Freedom is desirable but unattainable
C) Freedom is commonly associated with death
D) Death is a necessary precursor to freedom
A) Freedom is attainable, but not without hardship
Leaf-strewing gales utter low wails like violins.
The author establishes what TONE with their word choice?
A) Foreboding, dark
B) Whimsical, playful
C) Anxious, apprehensive
D) Enraged, haughty
A) Foreboding, dark
Hold fast to dreams. For if dreams die. Life is a broken winged bird. That cannot fly.
("Dreams" by Langstan Hughes)
This Poem utilizes which of the following figurative language elements?
A) Personification and Simile
B) Allusion and Personification
C) Personification and Metaphor
D) Metaphor and Allusion
E) Allusion and Simile
C) Personification and Metaphor
Whack! My son had hit a home run.
The silence was deafening just before the cheers began.
He ran like lightning to 4th base.
("The Apple of My Eye" by Unknown)
These lines contain what type(s) of figurative language?
Will accept Simile, Oxymoron and Onomatopoeia.
“Paid volunteers were working for the company.”
Is an example of what type of term?
Oxymoron - “paid volunteers”
The bookful blockhead ignorantly read,
With loads of learned lumber in his head,
What message is the author trying to convey about the “blockhead”? Provide evidence for points.
A) His reading habits make him very knowledgeable
B) He reads a lot but learns little
C) He is quick to memorize facts
“Pope’s “bookful blockhead” who is “ignorantly read” serves to B) describe someone who reads a lot but learns little from his reading.”
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry I could not travel both. Long I stood and looked down one as far as I could then took the other, as just as fair, and having perhaps the better claim, because it was grassy and wanted wear... and both that morning equally lay. In leaves no step had trodden black. Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. ...Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I took the one less traveled by and that has made all the difference.
("The road not taken" by Robert Frost")
From the authors description what can be inferred from the two roads? Provide evidence for points.
A) One road is very new and the other is very old
B) One road is easier and one is harder
C) One road is used often and the other not at all
D) One road is dangerous and the other is safe
C) One road is used often and the other not at all
"...better claim, because it was grassy and wanted wear.." shows that the first path used commonly and was attractive to travelers
"In leaves no step had trodden black," no one has walked this path yet.
"I took the one less traveled by," the speaker went out of his way to walk his own path.
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
In this poem by Langston Hughes, the author uses tone and similes to describe his dreams/goals as:
A) Always changing
B) Small
C) Unattainable
D) Satisfactory
C) Unattainable
When I behold the violet past prime,
And sable curls all silvered o’er with white;
When lofty trees I see barren of leaves...
(Shakespeare's Sonnet 12)
What do the images of a violet past its prime, sable-colored hair turned white, and trees that are barren of leaves symbolize?
A) Summer transitioning into fall
B) Gaining wisdom with experience
C) Old age and the passage of time
D) Embracing change
C) Old age and the passage of time
Which of the following vocabulary words appear in these lines from "Analysis of Baseball"?
Ball hits
bat, or it
hits mitt.
A) Just Alliteration
B) Alliteration and Consonance
C) Alliteration and Assonance
D) Just Consonance
E) Just Assonance
B) Alliteration and Consonance