Review

1. Copy the following table in your notebook and

complete it for each of Walt Whitman’s and Robert
Frost’s poems studied in the chapter. Answer
briefly.
Poem :
Author :
Subject :
Persona :
Poetic Devices :
Theme :
Stanzas:

2. Write a paragraph explaining which poems in the

chapter you liked the most. Support your
selection with details from the poem.

3. Select the word that doesn’t belong to the

following semantic fields. Then determine the
relationship between the other words.
a. lecture, sculpture, painting, music,
literature.
b. hospital, doctor, nurse, ambulance, patrol
car.
c. blog, magazine, newspaper, book.
d. rock, pebble, rap, pop, hip hop.
e. flute, drum, clarinet, saxophone.
4. Identify the verbs in the following sentences and
determine if they are action verbs or linking verbs.
 a. They go to the forest every day.
b. The boy seemed touched by the power of nature.
c. He felt overwhelmed by the beauty of the scenery.
d. We looked at the stars for several hours.
e. He took the road less traveled.
f. She felt the sand under her feet.

5. Identify the verbs in the following sentences and

determine if they are transitive or intransitive.
a. I need inspiration in order to write my poem.
b. I went to the bird sanctuary.
c. When I closed my eyes, I heard their enchanting
song.
d. However, I couldn’t write anything.
e. Later on, I arrived in a desolate field.
f. Then I found inspiration.

6. Rewrite the following paragraph, conjugating

the underlined verbs in the simple present tense. Then
analyze the effect produced by the different verb
tenses.

Annabel wanted to participate in the school’s poetry contest. She

thought it would be just as when she participated in the science fair. For
her, poetry was just another experiment. However, she wasn’t able to
write anything. She read books about meter, rhythm, figures of speech,
and Greek rhetoric, but it was useless. The blank page stared at her. She
examined the biographies of famous poets to no avail; the blank page
laughed at her. Words eluded her. The teacher saw her frustration. The
teacher gave her a copy of “Annabel Lee”, by Edgar Allan Poe. Annabel
read the first lines. The waves of the sea whispered in her ear. She heard
the poet’s distant voice. She embraced his longing words. Annabel
answered the call. She didn’t care about contests anymore. Poetry has
touched her soul.

7. Choose a word to complete each analogy.

a. sun: moon: day:
● night
● star
● light
b. star: sky: tree:
● leave
● forest
● nature
c. tender: caring:: rough:
● affectionate
● sweet
● rude
d. dish: food:: glass:
● drink
● metal
● goblet
e. scissors: cut:: pencil:
● notebook
● writes
● paints
f. milk: white:: chocolate:
● sweet
● brown
● chunk

8. Look for information on different kinds of birds.

Write a short poem in which you describe one. Use at
least one figure of speech.
9. Think about an environmental issue in your school
or community that you think is newsworthy. Write a
journalistic blog entry in which you showcase this
problem. Your entry must answer these questions:
a. What is the problem?
b. Who is involved? Who does it affect?
c. When did it happen?
d. Where did it happen?
e. Why did it happen? What are the reasons?