What is a central message of this poem?

Sometimes we look for things when they are there within us.

What text evidence best supports your answer about the intended audience for this poem?

"one true thing about the soul"

What is the central idea of "An Introduction to Poetry"?

People put too much work into understanding poems.

What can be said of the narrator of this poem?

It is the personification of genetics.

Which is the most visual image used to show the passage of time?

"two inches of snow have fallen"

What evidence is there to support your knowledge about the narrator?

The poem is written in the first person.

What evidence can you find to support the message?

"torture a confession out of it"

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1
What is a central message of this poem?
Winter will pass and peace will come.
We are all, ultimately, alone.
There is nothing certain in life.
Sometimes we look for things when they are there within us.
2
Which piece of evidence does not support the author's purpose?
"beat it with a hose"
"hold it up to the light"
"wave at the author's name"
"waterski across the surface"
3
What is the best definition for probe in line 6?
to physically explore
to medically research a living being
to send a signal
to chew
4
What text evidence best supports your choice of theme?
"Flesh perishes"
"that heeds no call to die."
"I am the family face"
"Leaping from place to place"
5
What text evidence best supports your answer about the intended audience for this poem?
"one true thing about the soul"
"two inches of snow have fallen over the meadow"
"looking for you? who would never leave me"
"staring at this window"
6
What is the major theme of this poem?
Families in pain
Immortality through genetics
Fear and flight
Death in the cemetery
7
What is the central idea of "An Introduction to Poetry"?
People should work harder to understand poems.
People put too much work into understanding poems.
Readers need to observe more thoroughly.
Poets deserve more fame.
8
What can be said of the narrator of this poem?
He has a round face and round eyes.
It is a simile for oblivion.
It is the personification of genetics.
It is a ghost.
9
Who is the poet most likely to be addressing in this poem?
the snow
her long lost love
the meadow
a thought
10
What does the poet want people to do with his poems?
enjoy them
pass tests about them
understand them thoroughly
remember them
11
What evidence is there to support your definition of "trace"?
"Flesh perishes, I live on"
"Over oblivion"
"Despise the human span of durance"
"Leaping from place to place"
12
What is your best evidence in text to support the meaning of probe?
"his way out"
"drop a mouse"
"into a poem"
"watch him"
13
Which is the most visual image used to show the passage of time?
"staring at this window"
"half the day lost"
"who would never leave me"
"two inches of snow have fallen"
14
What evidence is there to support your knowledge about the narrator?
The title of the poem.
The physical imagery in line 8.
The metaphors throughout the poem.
The poem is written in the first person.
15
What evidence can you find to support the message?
"torture a confession out of it"
"Walk inside the poem's room"
"I say drop a mouse into a poem."
"waving at the author's name on the shore"
16
What is the best definition of "trace" on line three?
a pathway
an ethnic belonging
a drawing technique
a remnant
17
What evidence is there to support your view of the poem's message?
"Who would never leave me"
"I left thinking for thought"
"Half the day lost"
"Where did I go?"
18
Which of the following plays an important role in this poem?
the view from the window
the ache of the soul
the temperature of the snow
the passage of time

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