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English
3rd
grade
Unit 2 Week 5 - Wonders - The Inventor Thinks Up Helicopters
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- 1. Multiple Choice
Which words from the poem “The Inventor Thinks Up Helicopters" rhyme? Select all that apply.
bug, rug
steering, veering
right, night
cricket, dragonfly
- 2. Multiple Choice
"that swerves like a dragonfly testing his steering,"
What type of figurative language does the poet from "The Inventor Thinks Up Helicopters" use in these lines?
metaphor
onomatopoeia
personification
simile
- 3. Multiple Choice
Reread these lines from the poem “The Inventor Thinks Up Helicopters.”
"Why not a vertical whirling winding bug,"
Which does the poet use in these lines of the poem?
alliteration
simile
onomatopoeia
repetition
- 4. Multiple Choice
"that hops like a cricket crossing a rug"
What type of figurative language does the poet from "The Inventor Thinks Up Helicopters" use in these lines?
metaphor
onomatopoeia
personification
simile
- 5. Multiple Choice
In "The Inventor Thinks Up Helicopters", what EFFECT does
"whirling and winding",
"up, down, left, right", and
"Jounce, bounce, day and night" create?
Select TWO answers.
It focuses the reader on the motion of the helicopter
It adds speed and intensity to the poem
It makes the reader feel like the helicopter is still
It adds a pause to the poem
- 6. Multiple Choice
Reread the poem “The Inventor Thinks Up Helicopters.”
To what is the poet comparing a helicopter?
bugs
pastures
rugs
spiders
- 7. Multiple Choice
What text evidence (similes) supports that the inventor's ideas for the helicopter came from bugs? (Select THREE).
"hops like a cricket"
"swerves like a dragonfly"
"fleet as a beetle"
"crossing a rug"
- 8. Multiple Choice
Why does the poet from "The Inventor Thinks Up Helicopters" end the poem with
"Why not?"
to show that he does not like to do things that are different
to show that he is an inventor because he takes risks
- 9. Multiple Choice
What type of poem is “The Inventor Thinks
Up Helicopters?”
acrostic
free verse
haiku
limerick
- 10. Multiple Choice
"Needs an engine as light as a feather."
Which does the poet from "Ornithopter" use in these lines of the poem?
alliteration
simile
onomatopoeia
repetition
- 11. Multiple Choice
Which words from the poem “Ornithopter" in Stanza 1 rhyme? Select TWO that apply.
clapping (line 1), snapping (line 2), flapping (line 5)
place (line 3), chase (line 4)
observers (line 1), pilot (line 2)
wings (line 3), wild (line 4)
- 12. Multiple Choice
Which words from the poem “Ornithopter" in Stanza 2 rhyme? Select TWO that apply.
weather (line 1), together (line 2), feather (line 5)
absurd (line 3), bird (line 4)
wind (line 1), wings (line 2)
plane (line 3), think (line 4)
- 13. Multiple Choice
What type of poem is “Ornithopter?”
acrostic
free verse
haiku
limerick
- 14. Multiple Choice
What is the poet's point of view about the ornithopter?
it is a great invention
it is a silly and unusual invention
- 15. Multiple Choice
What lines in the stanza's support the author's point of view that the ornithopter is a silly, unusual invention? (Select THREE)
The pilot was happily snapping bird wings into place for a wild goose chase
On a plane so absurd it thinks it's a bird
The plane needs an engine as light as a feather
But no matter the wind or the weather
- 16. Multiple Choice
How are all the poems ALIKE?
They are all about flying.
They are all about flying machines.
They all have similar rhyming patterns.
They all include similes and metaphors.
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