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English
6th -
8thgrade
Shel Silverstein & Spoonerisms from Runny Babbit
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- 1. Multiple Choice
What is the spoonerism for "Play soccer"?
Play ploccer
Slay Poccer
Say Ploccer
Poccer Slay
- 2. Multiple Choice
What is the spoonerism for "Wash the Dishes"?
Wash the Washes
Dish the Dashes
Wish the Dashes
Dash the Wishes
- 3. Multiple Choice
Runny Babbit switches the first letters of the words.
True
False
- 4. Multiple Choice
The author who wrote Runny Babbit and other funny poems was named?
Pablo Neruda
Runny Babbit
Shel Silverstein
Clemont C. Moore
- 5. Multiple Choice
Why did Shel Silverstein write funny and weird poems?
To sell a lot of poems
So kids would like poetry
He didn't like to see people laugh.
To have a job
- 6. Multiple Choice
What picture or illustration did Shel put with his poems.
Bright and colorful drawings
Black pencil drawings
Photos from a camera
Photos from his cell phone.
- 7. Multiple Choice
In the poem Homework Machine what happens?
The students have to make questions for the machine.
It makes homework pages for students.
The machine does all the answers wrong.
Everybody using the machine gets an A+.
- 8. Multiple Choice
Stanza is a
poem
group of lines separated by a space
bunch of words
set of only ten lines.
- 9. Multiple Choice
Line is
bunch of stanzas
several stanzas
group of words on the same line
always just three words
- 10. Multiple Choice
Poetry is made from
questions
words that may or may not rhyme.
a story
a book
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