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Grade 7 · English Language Arts · Unit 10 of 10

Poetry Lab

Rhyme, stanzas and speakers

What your child practises

Reading short original poems to find rhyme schemes, count stanzas, identify the speaker, recognize forms like haiku, limerick and free verse, and interpret figurative language and theme.

BC Curriculum learning standard: Story/text: forms and genres of text (haiku, limerick, free verse); literary elements and devices in poetry (stanza, rhyme scheme, speaker, metaphor, simile, personification)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Which word best describes the tone of this poem?

    Pete

    There once was a puppy named Pete

    Who snatched every sock off your feet.

    He'd tiptoe and creep

    While you were asleep,

    Then nap on the pile, looking sweet.

    • Serious
    • Humorous
    • Gloomy
    • Furious
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    Humorous

    Hint: A sneaky sock-stealing puppy napping on its loot... Is that meant to be funny or serious?

  2. Question 2

    What form of poem is this?

    Pete

    There once was a puppy named Pete

    Who snatched every sock off your feet.

    He'd tiptoe and creep

    While you were asleep,

    Then nap on the pile, looking sweet.

    • Haiku
    • Limerick
    • Free verse
    • Sonnet
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    Limerick

    Hint: This is a funny five-line poem where lines 1, 2 and 5 rhyme, and the short lines 3 and 4 rhyme.

  3. Question 3

    Which two lines rhyme with each other?

    Pete

    There once was a puppy named Pete

    Who snatched every sock off your feet.

    He'd tiptoe and creep

    While you were asleep,

    Then nap on the pile, looking sweet.

    • Lines 2 and 4
    • Lines 3 and 4
    • Lines 1 and 3
    • Lines 1 and 4
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    Lines 3 and 4

    Hint: Read the last word of each line in the pair out loud. Do they sound alike?

  4. Question 4

    What is the rhyme scheme of this poem?

    Saturday Market

    The baker stacks her golden bread,

    The farmer weighs a pear,

    A fiddle's music twirls and spins

    Like ribbons through the air.

    • ABAB
    • ABBA
    • ABCB
    • AABB
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    ABCB

    Hint: Look at the last word of each line. Give the first end sound the letter A, the next new sound B, and so on. Lines that rhyme share a letter.

  5. Question 5

    Which senses does the poem mainly appeal to?

    Saturday Market

    The baker stacks her golden bread,

    The farmer weighs a pear,

    A fiddle's music twirls and spins

    Like ribbons through the air.

    • Touch and taste
    • Smell and touch
    • Taste and smell
    • Sight and hearing
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    Sight and hearing

    Hint: “Golden bread” is something you see. Fiddle music is something you hear.

  6. Question 6

    Which line contains a simile?

    Saturday Market

    The baker stacks her golden bread,

    The farmer weighs a pear,

    A fiddle's music twirls and spins

    Like ribbons through the air.

    • Like ribbons through the air.
    • The farmer weighs a pear,
    • The baker stacks her golden bread,
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    Like ribbons through the air.

    Hint: A simile compares using “like” or “as.” Which line has one of those words?

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