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Poems Check for Understanding (Ode & Lyric)

Quiz by Reem Alkadi

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  • Q1
    The poet's purpose in this poem is to: (Here is the poem if you need it) Ode to Enchanted Light Under the trees light has dropped from the top of the sky, light like a green latticework of branches, shining on every leaf, drifting down like clean white sand. A cicada sends its sawing song high into the empty air. The world is a glass overflowing with water.
    praise and celebrate light
    tell a story of a walk in the woods
    mourn the passage of time
    express a personal emotion
    60s
  • Q2
    In "Ode to Enchanted Light", an example of metaphor is:
    shining on every leaf
    The world is a glass overflowing with water
    light like a green latticework of branches
    Under the trees light has dropped from the top of the sky
    45s
  • Q3
    What image does Pablo Neruda create with the simile in lines 8-9 "drifting down like clean/ white sand"? (Here is the poem if you need it) Ode to Enchanted Light Under the trees light has dropped from the top of the sky, light like a green latticework of branches, shining on every leaf, drifting down like clean white sand. A cicada sends its sawing song high into the empty air. The world is a glass overflowing with water.
    the play of light and shadow in the branches
    the way light falls down from the sky
    the reflection created by light on the leaves
    the brightness of the white light
    45s
  • Q4
    The image in lines 10-11 of "Ode to Enchanted Light" (A cicada sends/ its sawing song") appeals to the sense of (Here is the poem if you need it) Ode to Enchanted Light Under the trees light has dropped from the top of the sky, light like a green latticework of branches, shining on every leaf, drifting down like clean white sand. A cicada sends its sawing song high into the empty air. The world is a glass overflowing with water.
    smell
    hearing
    taste
    sight
    45s
  • Q5
    What does Pablo Neruda mean by saying "The world is/ a glass overflowing/with water." (lines 13-15) (Here is the poem if you need it) Ode to Enchanted Light Under the trees light has dropped from the top of the sky, light like a green latticework of branches, shining on every leaf, drifting down like clean white sand. A cicada sends its sawing song high into the empty air. The world is a glass overflowing with water.
    People should appreciate and protect the world's resources.
    The wonder and beauty of nature are endless
    Few people can understand what the world is made of.
    The world is made of more water than land.
    45s
  • Q6
    What image does Mary Oliver create with the example of personification in lines 1-5 of "Sleeping in the Forest"? (Here is the poem if you need it) Sleeping In The Forest I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept as never before, a stone on the riverbed, nothing between me and the white fire of the stars but my thoughts, and they floated light as moths among the branches of the perfect trees. All night I heard the small kingdoms breathing around me, the insects, and the birds who do their work in the darkness. All night I rose and fell, as if in water, grappling with a luminous doom. By morning I had vanished at least a dozen times into something better.
    the nearness of the stars
    the sound of the river washing over stones
    feeling part f the kingdom of the insects
    sleeping in the lap of the earth
    45s
  • Q7
    In "Sleeping in the Forest", an example of simile appears in (Here is the poem if you need it) Sleeping In The Forest I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept as never before, a stone on the riverbed, nothing between me and the white fire of the stars but my thoughts, and they floated light as moths among the branches of the perfect trees. All night I heard the small kingdoms breathing around me, the insects, and the birds who do their work in the darkness. All night I rose and fell, as if in water, grappling with a luminous doom. By morning I had vanished at least a dozen times into something better.
    I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging (Line 1-2)
    on the riverbed, nothing between me and the white fire of the stars (line 6-7)
    around me, the insects, and the birds who do their work in the darkness. All night (line 12-13)
    light as moths among the branches of the perfect trees. All night (line 9-10)
    45s
  • Q8
    The imagery in lines 5-11 of "Sleeping in the Forest" suggests a feeling of (Here is the poem if you need it) Sleeping In The Forest I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept as never before, a stone on the riverbed, nothing between me and the white fire of the stars but my thoughts, and they floated light as moths among the branches of the perfect trees. All night I heard the small kingdoms breathing around me, the insects, and the birds who do their work in the darkness. All night I rose and fell, as if in water, grappling with a luminous doom. By morning I had vanished at least a dozen times into something better.
    restlessness
    excitement
    contentment
    confusion
    60s
  • Q9
    From evidence in "Sleeping in the Forest", you can infer that (Here is the poem if you need it) Sleeping In The Forest I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept as never before, a stone on the riverbed, nothing between me and the white fire of the stars but my thoughts, and they floated light as moths among the branches of the perfect trees. All night I heard the small kingdoms breathing around me, the insects, and the birds who do their work in the darkness. All night I rose and fell, as if in water, grappling with a luminous doom. By morning I had vanished at least a dozen times into something better.
    stars frighten the speaker
    the speaker is lonely
    the speaker is homesick
    nature soothes the speaker
    45s
  • Q10
    "Ode to Enchanted Light" and "Sleeping in the Forest" are alike in that they both
    show unusual events in nature
    recount a personal experience
    have a distinct rhyme scheme
    present positive views of nature
    45s

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