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by BlastRoom
Two short poems that look simple and are not: what the woods offer, and which way the world ends.
#literature
20 questions
One question set, multiple game modes. Tap any game to see it in action. Not sure which to pick?
Answer to place stones and capture territory.
Outrun the snow together.
Earn blasts, then hunt the other team.
Answer to earn energy, then climb.
The class blasts through walls together.
Bid on mystery lots. Most money wins.
Sell tours. Nice, standard, or a total scam.
Answer, restock, and serve the rush.
More correct answers pulls the rope your way.
Answer, then shoot down the alien wave.
Answer, then tap to leap the frozen ridge.
"Fire and Ice" opens "Some say the world will end in fire, / Some say in ice." The speaker then attaches a feeling to each. Which feeling does he attach to fire?
In "Fire and Ice" the middle of the poem turns on the line "But if it had to perish twice,". What does that line let the speaker do?
"Fire and Ice" closes: "I think I know enough of hate / To say that for destruction ice / Is also great / And would suffice." What does the speaker claim about ice?
The last two lines of "Fire and Ice" are much shorter than most of the poem's lines: "Is also great / And would suffice." What does that shortening do at the end of the poem?
In "Fire and Ice" the speaker says, "I hold with those who favor fire." What does he mean?
"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" begins "Whose woods these are I think I know." Where is the owner of the woods while the speaker stops?
In "Stopping by Woods" the horse "gives his harness bells a shake / To ask if there is some mistake." What does the speaker say makes the stop seem a mistake to the horse?
What does "Stopping by Woods" tell the reader about the time and weather when the speaker stops?
In "Stopping by Woods," apart from the harness bells, what is the only other sound the speaker hears?
In "Stopping by Woods" the speaker calls the woods "lovely, dark and deep." What reason does he give for not staying?
In "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" the speaker stops between the woods and a frozen lake.
How is "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" laid out on the page?
In the first three stanzas of "Stopping by Woods," lines 1, 2 and 4 rhyme, and the unrhymed third line sets the rhyme for the next stanza (here, then queer / near / year). What does this chain do?
"Stopping by Woods" ends "And miles to go before I sleep, / And miles to go before I sleep." What does repeating the line do?
"Fire and Ice" runs nine lines with no stanza break and rhymes throughout. Which pair of its words rhymes with "ice"?
Which sound device is at work in "The only other sound's the sweep / Of easy wind and downy flake."?
Which statement is NOT true of these two Frost poems?
Both poems set a speaker weighing something up. What is each one weighing?
Both "Fire and Ice" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" are written in free verse, with no rhyme at all.
Cold turns up in both poems. How does each use it?
Crack the passcode before the zombies get in.
Answer, then swat bugs for bonus points.
Race through questions at your own speed.
Same question on every screen. Fastest wins.
Pick a tile, answer, hit bonuses and steals.
Grade 9 Poetry Review
40 questions
