Poetry Quiz

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Poetry Quiz

• Number your paper 1-8 and identify the type poem
  for each slide. Find at least 1 example of
  figurative language in each poem and record the
  device on your paper. The next slide shows an
  example.

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Sample

• Snow
• Gently drifting down
• Winter flurries are coming
• Tickling my cold face
• Sean Klabough
• 5th grade student
• Wisconsin, USA

• Answer
• This is a Haiku
• It shows personification
• because snow is tickling
• the authors face as a human would
• tickle.

Begin your quiz with
the next slide.
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The Turtle
is a giant hurdle
Lewis, J. Patrick, Doodle Dandies Poems That
Take Shape. Atheneum books for Young Readers New
York. 1998.
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2.
Friendship UnderstandingTalking, caring,
sharingTaking and giving all at onceBest pals
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3.
Hickory, Dickory, DockThe mouse ran up the
clockThe clock struck oneAnd down he
ranHickory, Dickory, Dock!
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4.
Lightning flashes bright Heron's cry loud, loud,
louder Stabs the dark quiet
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5.
Love Makes the World Go round.
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6.
The Carpenter and the Walrus
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7.
Beetles, butterflies Under rocks, under leaves,
Green grasshoppers in the garden Spring
critters!   by Grade 4 and 5 students of South
Brook Academy,
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8.
Shark Smooth, Vertical Swimming, Eating,
Tearing Furiously Mean Friendly
Intelligence Jumping , Spinning, Guiding Gray,
Horizontal Dolphin
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Thank you for taking the poetry quiz.
Turn in your paper to the teacher.