1. What type of figurative language is used in lines 1-4 of the poem?
Answer: Personification
2. After reading the poem, what can you conclude about the moon?
Answer: She thinks the night is her territory, not the sun's.
3. Which detail from the poem best supports the conclusion you drew in the previous question?
Answer: Because she thought the sun had got no business to be there.
4. Which is the best paraphrase of the first stanza?
Answer: The sun was shining and making the waves of the sea bright. This was very strange, because it was night.
5. Which of the following words from the poem has a negative connotation?
Answer: Rude
6. Which form best describes this poem?
Answer: Lyric poem
7. What about the poem best supports the answer to the previous question?
Answer: It expresses thoughts and feelings about a single image or idea.
8. Which lines in the second stanza rhyme?
Answer: lines 8, 10, and 12
9. To which sense does the imagery in lines 14-16 appeal?
Answer: hearing
10. Which line contains an example of alliteration?
Answer: line 2
11. Where can you find a simile in the poem?
Answer: lines 5-6
12. What can you conclude from the figurative language you identified in the previous question?
Answer: The blacksmith is reliable
13. What is the most common subject of traditional haiku poetry?
Answer: nature
14. Just describe each sound device, give an example that you make up or find on google, then describe how it enhances poems.
15. Which word from the following list has meanings that fit both sentences?
I'll start the fire after _____ the match.
The workers are ______ for a higher wage.
Answer: striking
16. Select the correct sentence function and corresponding endmark for the sentence.
When did the party end last night
Answer: interrogative (?)
17. Which of the following sentences contains a dependent clause?
Answer: Let's take a trip to the beach when we can save money.
18. In the following sentence, identify the independent clause.
Since you moved to Spain, I have been feeling lonely.
Answer: I have been feeling lonely.
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