Exploring Poetry
A Grade 5 ELA worksheet focusing on understanding and identifying elements of poetry.
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Exploring Poetry
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Read each poem and question carefully. Answer all questions to the best of your ability.
The Wind
I saw you toss the kites on high And blow the birds about the sky; And all around I heard you pass, Like ladies' skirts across the grass— O wind, a-blowing all day long, O wind, that sings so loud a song!
— Robert Louis Stevenson
1. What is the main idea of this poem?
The wind helps kites fly.
The wind is a powerful force of nature.
The wind sounds like ladies' skirts.
Birds can fly in the wind.
2. Find an example of personification in the poem. Write the line and explain what is being personified.
My Shadow
I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see. He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head; And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
3. The poem describes the shadow as being very similar to the speaker from the up to the .
4. The speaker's shadow always stays behind them.
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Match the poetic device with its definition.
5. Simile
a. Giving human qualities to inanimate objects or animals.
6. Metaphor
b. A comparison between two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'.
7. Personification
c. A comparison between two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'.
Use the words below to complete the sentences.
8. The pattern of rhyming words at the end of lines in a poem is called the .
9. A group of lines in a poem, similar to a paragraph, is called a .
10. Write a short poem (at least four lines) about your favorite season. Try to use at least one simile or metaphor.
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