Ms. Stevens’ Semester Test Study Guide 8th Grade Reading Page 1 Name: Date: 1 Directions: Read the following poem, and answer the questions below. The West Wind It’ s a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds’ cries; I never hear the west wind but tears are in my eyes. For it comes from the west lands, the old brown hills, And April’ s in the west wind, and daffodils. It’ s a fine land, the west land, for hearts as tired as mine; Apple orchards blossom there, and the airs’ like wine. There is cool green grass there where men may lie at rest; And the thrushes are in song there, fluting from their nest… What is the rhyme scheme? aabbaacc abababab aabbccdd abbcbccd 2 Directions: Read the following poem, and answer the questions below. The West Wind It’ s a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds’ cries; I never hear the west wind but tears are in my eyes. In the first line, what is the literary device in the words “ warm wind, the west wind” A onomatopoeia B alliteration rhyme rhythm 5/16/2017 10:35:49 AM

Poetry Questions Page 2 3 Directions: Read the following poem, and answer the questions below. The West Wind It’ s a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds’ cries; I never hear the west wind but tears are in my eyes. For it comes from the west lands, the old brown hills, And April’ s in the west wind, and daffodils. It’ s a fine land, the west land, for hearts as tired as mine; Apple orchards blossom there, and the airs’ like wine. There is cool green grass there where men may lie at rest; And the thrushes are in song there, fluting from their nest… The words “ my eyes” uses what sound device? A onomatopoeia B alliteration rhyme repetition 4 Directions: Read the following poem, and answer the questions below. The West Wind It’ s a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds’ cries; I never hear the west wind but tears are in my eyes. The poem is written in couplets stanzas quatrains cinquains 5/16/2017 10:35:49 AM

Poetry Questions Page 3 Directions: Read the following poem, and answer the questions below. The West Wind It’ s a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds’ cries; I never hear the west wind but tears are in my eyes. For it comes from the west lands, the old brown hills, And April’ s in the west wind, and daffodils. It’ s a fine land, the west land, for hearts as tired as mine; Apple orchards blossom there, and the airs’ like wine. There is cool green grass there where men may lie at rest; And the thrushes are in song there, fluting from their nest… In the last line, which word is an example of onomatopoeia? A. A thrushes song fluting nest Directions: Read the following poem, and answer the questions below. The West Wind It’ s a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds’ cries; I never hear the west wind but tears are in my eyes. Line six has a comparison. is being compared to A song to a nest B air to wine air to song blossoms to air 5/16/2017 10:35:49 AM

Poetry Questions Page 4 Is the comparison in line six a simile or metaphor? Apple orchards blossom there, and the airs’ like wine. simile metaphor C D What kind of poem is this? A free verse poem B concrete poem C lyric D narrative The sense of and the sense of are appealed to in the first line. It’ s a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds’ cries; A sight and taste B touch and sight C touch and sound D sound and smell This kind of description which appeals to one or more of the five senses is called A similes allusions imagery metaphors The repeating of beginning consonant sounds is . A onomatopoeia rhyme alliteration refrain 12 Poetry that does not follow a specific form and does not have to rhyme is known as poetry. cinquain haiku free verse limerick 5/16/2017 10:35:49 AM

Poetry Questions Page 5 Read the following examples of figurative language. Identify the poetic device that is most clearly being used. When you, my Dear, are away, away, How wearily goes the day. A year drags after morning, and night / Starts another year. hyperbole simile onomatopoeia D metaphor Chicago is a city that is fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action. enjambment metaphor simile repetition 15 Gracefully she sat down sideways, / With a simper smile A personification B alliteration C metaphor D rhyme 16 Drip-hiss-drip-hiss- fall the raindrops A personification B metaphor simile onomatopoeia 17 The fountain tossed its water, / Up and up, like silver marbles. simile hyperbole personification D idiom 5/16/2017 10:35:49 AM

Poetry Questions Page 6 18 Falstaff sweats to death, as he walks along; / Were't not for laughing, I should pity him. hyperbole metaphor personification D simile 19 Lives of great men remind us / We can make our lives sublime; And, departing, leave behind us / Footprints on the sands of time. simile metaphor onomatopoeia D personification His sorrow goes / Like mountain snows / In waters sweet and clear, hyperbole repetition The tear-drop trickled to his chin: There was a meaning in her grin hyperbole rhyme repetition D metaphor 5/16/2017 10:35:49 AM

Poetry Questions Page 7 22 All night long with rush and lull / The rain kept drumming on the roof: simile hyperbole repetition personification 23 The child with / her infinite energy / would run / her parents to / the ground metaphor simile hyperbole repetition My love is like a red, red rose. A repetition personification There’ s a patch of old snow in a corner. simile imagery metaphor repetition 5/16/2017 10:35:49 AM

Poetry Questions Page 8 26 We Wear the Mask BY PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,- This debt we pay to human guile; With torn and bleeding hearts we smile, And mouth with myriad subtleties. Why should the world be over-wise, In counting all our tears and sighs? Nay, let them only see us, while We wear the mask. We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries To thee from tortured souls arise. We sing, but oh the clay is vile Beneath our feet, and long the mile; But let the world dream otherwise, We wear the mask! Does this poem have continuous rhythm? Yes No 5/16/2017 10:35:49 AM

Poetry Questions Page 9 We Wear the Mask BY PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,- This debt we pay to human guile; With torn and bleeding hearts we smile, And mouth with myriad subtleties. Why should the world be over-wise, In counting all our tears and sighs? Nay, let them only see us, while We wear the mask. We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries To thee from tortured souls arise. We sing, but oh the clay is vile Beneath our feet, and long the mile; But let the world dream otherwise, We wear the mask! What is the mask? simile metaphor personification D onomatopoeia A Patch of Old Snow Robert Frost There’ s a patch of old snow in a corner That I should have guessed Was a blow-away paper the rain Had brought to rest. It is speckled with grime as if Small print overspread it, The news of a day I’ ve forgotten- If I ever read it. In which format are the stanzas of this poem written? couplet quatrain sestet octave 5/16/2017 10:35:49 AM

Poetry Questions Page 10 A Patch of Old Snow Robert Frost There’ s a patch of old snow in a corner That I should have guessed Was a blow-away paper the rain Had brought to rest. It is speckled with grime as if Small print overspread it, The news of a day I’ ve forgotten- If I ever read it. What literary element is Frost using in describing the patch of snow? imagery simile metaphor D descriptors Which senses is he appealing to In lines one and three? A sight and touch B sound and touch C smell and sound D sight and smell 5/16/2017 10:35:49 AM

Poetry Questions Page 11 31 Bee, I’ m Expecting You! Emily Dickinson Bee, I’ m expecting you! Was saying yesterday To somebody you know That you were due. The frogs got home last week, Are settled and at work, Birds mostly back, The clover warm and thick. You’ ll get my letter by The seventeenth; reply, Or better, be with me. Yours, Fly. What literary device is Emily Dickinson employing in this poem? imagery hyperbole Personification onomatopoeia 5/16/2017 10:35:49 AM

Poetry Questions Page 12 32 Bee, I’ m Expecting You! Emily Dickinson Bee, I’ m expecting you! Was saying yesterday To somebody you know That you were due. The frogs got home last week, Are settled and at work, Birds mostly back, The clover warm and thick. You’ ll get my letter by The seventeenth; reply, Or better, be with me. Yours, Fly. What is this poem a metaphor for? A spring time B nature honeybees a woman named Bee is a type of Japanese poetry that is made up of three lines. A lyric haiku limerick diamante A is a line (or lines) that is (are) repeated at the end of stanzas in poetry and music. rhythm refrain simile rhyme 35 Which kind of poetry tells a story with a plot, character(s), and setting? A narrative poetry lyrical poetry concrete poetry D diamontes 5/16/2017 10:35:49 AM

Poetry Questions Page 13 This kind of poetry forms the shape of its subject. diamante concrete haiku limerick This kind of poetry forms the shape of a diamond. A diamante are humorous poems of five lines. They have definite rhythm and a rhyme scheme of aabba. lyric cinquain A group of lines in a poem similar to that of a paragraph; the way the poem is divided A alliteration stanza repetition simile The repeating of end sounds of words is . A rhyme rhythm meter feet When rhyming is organized into patterns and can be labeled aaba it is called A rhyme rhyme scheme end rhyme D rhythm 42 The repeating of a word or phrase to add rhythm or emphasis is A rhyme alliteration 5/16/2017 10:35:49 AM

Poetry Questions Page 14 43 Metaphors, similes, onomatopoeia, and personification are all examples of what? A figurative language B elements of poetry C both A and B D neither A or B The way a line in a poem has stressed and unstressed words A rhythm B rhyme C repetition D rhyme scheme Choose the poem type that matches: Coming from the woods A bull has a lilac sprig Dangling from a horn limerick haiku free verse narrative poem 46 Choose the poem type that matches: There was an old man from Peru Who dreamed he was eating his shoe. In the midst of the night He awoke in a fright And---good grief! It was perfectly true! lyric ballad 5/16/2017 10:35:49 AM

Poetry Questions Page 15 Choose the poem type that matches: When I Was Christened by David McCord When I was christened They held me up and poured some water out of a cup. The trouble was it fell on me, and I and water don’ t agree A lot of christeners stood and listened: I let them know that I was christened. free verse lyric narrative ballad Choose the poem type that matches: Doves By Court Smith A concrete poem B diamante acrostic lyric 49 Which type of poem must have only 14 lines? ballad sonnet epic limerick 5/16/2017 10:35:49 AM

Poetry Questions Page 16 This poet wrote 366 poems during their lifetime. Dickinson Frost Angelou Whitman In Whitman's "Oh Captain, My Captain," The ship is an extended metaphor for..... A. Abraham Lincoln a naval military vessel America The Civil War This type of poetry honors the Dead. A ode ballad lyric elegy In This poem, Each stanza is a . “Hope” is the thing with feathers BY EMILY DICKINSON “Hope” is the thing with feathers - That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without the words - And never stops - at all - And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard - And sore must be the storm - That could abash the little Bird That kept so many warm - I’ ve heard it in the chillest land - And on the strangest Sea - Yet - never - in Extremity, It asked a crumb - of me. couplet sestet quatrain octet 5/16/2017 10:35:49 AM

Poetry Questions Page 17 54 “Hope” is the thing with feathers BY EMILY DICKINSON “Hope” is the thing with feathers - That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without the words - And never stops - at all - And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard - And sore must be the storm - That could abash the little Bird That kept so many warm - I’ ve heard it in the chillest land - And on the strangest Sea - Yet - never - in Extremity, It asked a crumb - of me. What is being compared in this poem? faith and hope hope and feathers hope to a bird D a bird to a storm 55 “Hope” is the thing with feathers BY EMILY DICKINSON In this stanza, which figurative language technique is being? A personification B simile hyperbole onomotopoeia 5/16/2017 10:35:49 AM

Poetry Questions Page 18 And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard - And sore must be the storm - That could abash the little Bird That kept so many warm - Using context clues, what is the meaning of "Gale"? a church a field a girl's name a horrible storm Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary....... Identify the internal rhyme A midnight, weak B dreary, weary C once, while D dreary, pondered 5/16/2017 10:35:49 AM

Poetry Questions Page 19 58 A NARROW fellow in the grass Occasionally rides; You may have met him,-did you not? His notice sudden is. The grass divides as with a comb, 5 A spotted shaft is seen; And then it closes at your feet And opens further on. He likes a boggy acre, A floor too cool for corn. Yet when a child, and barefoot, I more than once, at morn, Have passed, I thought, a whip-lash Unbraiding in the sun,- When, stooping to secure it, It wrinkled, and was gone. 10 15 Several of nature’ s people I know, and they know me; I feel for them a transport Of cordiality; 20 But never met this fellow, Attended or alone, Without a tighter breathing, And zero at the bone. What animal is the narrow fellow? a rat a snake an eel a weasel 5/16/2017 10:35:49 AM

Poetry Questions Page 20 59 MLA FORMATTING: According to MLA format, the list of references which appear at the end of your paper is called: A Bibliography B Works Cited C References D Sources used 60 MLA FORMATTING: The references at the end of your paper should appear in alphabetical order by authors’ surname or by title (if there is no author), regardless of type of reference (book, film journal article, website, etc..). under separate subheadings according to type of source. C first under those with authors, then those without. D numbered in the order in which they appear. 61 MLA FORMATTING: If no author is given for a source you are using, you should cite the work by . date city of publication and publisher title D None of the above 62 MLA FORMATTING: If one entry in a Works Cited entry is for a book by Angus Brown entitled The Southern Agarians and a second is for another book by the same individual entitled New England Awakening, which of the following is the proper parenthetical note form for a quotation from page 42 of The Southern Agarians? A (Mr. Angus Brown, The Southern 42). B (The Southern Agarians 42). C (Brown, Southern Agrarians 42). D (Brown, p. 42). 5/16/2017 10:35:49 AM

What is the page setup for a properly formatted MLA document? Poetry Questions Page 21 MLA Formatting: What is the page setup for a properly formatted MLA document? A 1 inch margins B .5 inch margins C .75 inch margins D .25 inch margins In "The ransom of Red Chief", Which word best describes Bill? clever defeated brave mean-spirited How are Mr. Dorset and the kidnappers in conflict? A he wants them to be punished he feels sorry for them he won't pay their ransom he misses his son In "The Ransom of Red Chief," You realize that the conflict between Sam and the boy is more than Sam expected when: Bill’ s screams wake Sam the boy talks nonstop during dinner Sam dreams about a redheaded pirate Sam sleeps with the boy between himself and Bill In "The Ransom of Red Chief," Sam and Bill sign their letter “ Two Desperate Men” because they want Mr. Dorset to know that: they agree to keep their location and identities a secret Mr. Dorset must agree to give them the money or they will beg for it loudly the boy is annoying, and they are desperate to be rid of him D they are desperate and might harm the boy if their demands are not met 68 What does Mr. Dorset do that shows that the men are not alone in their feelings about the boy? tells the men that they can keep the boy with them at the cave warns the men to return the boy at night so that the neighbors do not see them sends a bike messenger to the appointed place to drop off a note agrees to Sam’ s instructions about where to pay the ransom 5/16/2017 10:35:49 AM

Poetry Questions Page 22 69 Which is not a reason for Sam and Bill’ s choosing Summit for kidnapping. A Sam believes that a kidnapper is less likely to get caught in a small town. B Sam grew up nearby and knows the town and its people well. Sam finds a man who can afford the ransom with a young son. Sam believes that the people in small towns have strong ties to their children To distinguish them from others, the German forced the Jews to A forced them to walk everywhere wear gaudy, five pointed, yellow stars forbid them to go to movies 71. Who of the following was not a business associate of Mr.. Frank? A Van Daan Miep Mr. Dussel Since they couldn’ t carry suitcases to their hiding place, Anne and her family A stuffed clothing in large shopping bags wore layers of clothing took only one set of clothes with them 73. The entrance to the Secret Annexe was hidden by A a bookcase a fake wall a large mirror A sound that Anne loved, especially at night, came from A the sound of the ocean a church bell the Westertoren clock 75. Mr.. Dussel was a doctor a dentist a lawyer 76 On some nights Anne couldn’ t sleep and lay awake trembling with fear because A she had terrible nightmares she was afraid of the dark the sound of gunfire and bombs came from outside 5/16/2017 10:35:49 AM

Poetry Questions Page 23 Anne wanted to be a Professor a journalist/writer a doctor or a medical researcher Anne’ s diary began in June, 1942 and recorded the events of her life until the last entry in August A 1943 B 1944 C 1945 Anne wrote that, in spite of everything, she still believed that people were really good at heart were full of rage and murderous intent would soon build a better world where Jews were accepted Mr.. Frank took his family to Holland in 1933 A to escape Hitler's anti-Jewish Laws because he had been offered a great job so that his daughters could attend the best schools and universities 5/16/2017 10:35:49 AM