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- 1. Multiple Choice
What is the poem talking about?
teenagers
parents
senior citizens/ older people
friends
- 2. Multiple Choice
Talk informally about unimportant matters
Aching
Stumbling
Chattering
- 3. Multiple Choice
What does sympathy means?
do not cry over something small
feeling of pity for someone else's misfortune
ability to share someone else's feeling
- 4. Multiple Choice
What is the synonym for stiff?
hard
pretty
soft
pity
- 5. Multiple Choice
What does the speaker have less of now? (more than one answer)
hair
chin
teeth
bones
- 6. Multiple Choice
What does it mean when the speaker says...
Understanding if you got it,
Otherwise I’ll do without it!
The speaker really wants a rocking chair and if you can't get her one then you do not understand her.
speak to her and understand her as if she were equal to you. If you can't see her as equal (without showing pity) then you will not understand her and she is okay with tjat.
the persona does not need help with anything
- 7. Multiple Choice
What are the things that the speaker does NOT need from others? (more than one answer)
small talks or conversation
time to herself to think
feeling pity for her situation
a recliner
- 8. Multiple Choice
The speaker is most likely _______.
a baby
an older person/ senior citizen
a teacher
a elementary student
- 9. Multiple Choice
What is a synonym for stumble?
pity
hard
trip or lose balance
fight
- 10. Multiple Choice
Who is the poet that composed the poem, "On Aging?"
Langston Hughes
Maya Angelou
Michelle Obama
Mrs. Kemp
- 11. Multiple Choice
Line one from the poem reads--
"When you see me sitting quietly, like a sack upon a shelf"
What type of figurative language is this?
metaphor
hyperbole
alliteration
simile
- 12. Multiple Choice
Lines 5-6 from the poem read--
"Hold Stop! Don't pity me!
Hold! Stop your sympathy!"
Is an example of which type of literary device?
rhyme
repetition
sound
- 13. Multiple Choice
The author feel lucky at the end of the poem because---
Line 20 reads (Line 20 is the last line)
"But ain't I lucky I can still breathe in"
She is happy to be alive
She is happy to have a rocking chair
She likes to breathe in while sitting in her rocking chair
She likes people to feel sorry for her
- 14. Multiple Choice
The word "ain't" in line 20--
"But ain't I lucky I can still breathe in"
is an example of what?
simile
dialect
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