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Grade 7 · English Language Arts · Unit 5 of 18

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.

Nunavut Curriculum approved guide: NWT English Language Arts (2011), Comprehension · features of poems and how they build meaning

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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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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