Excercise 6

Activity 6

Choose the best answer for each question.

 1. The persona in the poem describes a ..........
A. river           B. monster          C. nomad          D. river

2. The river is compared to a human being. This is called ..........
A. similie          B. metaphor          C. synonym          D. personification

3. In the first stanza, the river is being described as a ..........
A. camp          B. place          C. tramp          D. dancer

4. The word 'turns' rhymes with ..........
A. fields          B. tools          C. ferns          D.purrs

5. A hoarder is likely to ..........
A. buy a lot of things     B. keep a lot of things     C. give away his things      D. sell goods

6. The word 'gurgles' in the poem is an example of a ..........
A. rhyme          B. similie          C. antonym          D. noun

7. In stanza 5, the 'notes' refer to ..........
A. a dance          B. a play           C. a song          D. a speech

8. When a sound echoes, it ..........
A. is loud          B. is soft          C. hurts our ears          D. travels away and comes back

9. By gobbling trees, the river is being ..........
A. productive          B. destructive          C. fruitful         D. healthy

10. The word 'swallow' can be replaced with ..........
A. pull          B. swim          C. drown          D. bury