Poetry Assessment: Speaker and Personification
Name
Teacher’s Pet
1
2
I know the answers
to all of the problems.
3
4
I am the best student
in the class.
5
6
I drink in the details
and know every book.
7
8
I don’t get a desk
I just swim and I swish…
9
10
11
If the teacher just knew
How much I’ve learned.
To get an A+ is my one true wish…
12
13
Too bad I’m the classroom
Fish.
1. Who is the speaker in
this poem?
2. Which line from the
poem shows
personification?
A. Line 9
B. Line 10
C. Line 4
D. Line 11
3. What is the speaker’s
attitude toward school?
A. Angry
B. Surprised
C. Enthusiastic
D. Bored
4. In the poem, what does the speaker really want? (Be sure to put
your answer in a complete sentence!)
Mountain Whispers
1
2
3
4
5
6
On the map the mountains have names
Neatly noted in capital letters:
Blue Mountain
Bear Mountain
Big Hill
Panthers Knob
7
8
9
10
But when I see the mountains
Standing shadowed, purple, still
Against the setting sun
They tell me these names are not their own
11
12
13
14
And the wind brings whispers
of the mountains’ true names
spoken
in the ancient dark language of rock.
5. Which line from the poem shows an example of
personification?
A. Line 1
B. Line 7
C. Line 9
D. Line 10
6. Which best describes the speaker of the poem?
A. A mountain who doesn’t like its name
B. A person who makes maps
C. A person who looks at mountain names on a map
D. The wind
7. The words “shadowed, purple, still” in Line 7 describe:
A. The way the mountains look in the morning.
B. The way the mountains look in the evening.
C. The way the mountains say their names.
D. The way the mountains look on the map.
8. Which sentence best explains the central idea of the poem
“Mountain Whispers”?
A. The speaker likes the names of the mountains, and doesn’t
want them to change.
B. The speaker wants to be more like mountains, but the
mountains won’t allow it.
C. The speaker whispers names to the mountains.
D. The speaker doesn’t think that the mountains’ names fit, and
imagines that the wind whispers other names.
9. Explain an example of personification from the poem
“Mountain Whispers.” Be sure to quote the line from the text,
explain its meaning, and show why it is personification.