Answer:
I think its really good! It's a good length, and it sounds like you're speaking from your heart. I would give it an A!
Explanation:
Proper noun:
My dog's name is <u>Zoom</u>.
<em>'Zoom' is a proper noun, because it is a name.</em>
Helping verb:
My shoe <u>has</u> a tag on it.
<em>'Has' is a</em><em> </em><em>helping</em><em> </em><em>verb</em><em>.</em><em> There are large lists online of all the helping verbs.</em>
Action verb:
I <u>jump</u> over the cracks in the sidewalk as I walk.
<em>'</em><em>Jump</em><em>'</em><em> </em><em>is</em><em> </em><em>an</em><em> </em><em>action</em><em> </em><em>verb</em><em>.</em><em> </em><em>Action</em><em> </em><em>verbs</em><em> </em><em>show</em><em> </em><em>an</em><em> </em><em>action</em><em> </em><em>being</em><em> </em><em>done</em><em>,</em><em> </em><em>ex</em><em>.</em><em> </em><em>run</em><em>,</em><em> </em><em>leap</em><em>,</em><em> </em><em>sing</em><em>,</em><em> </em><em>dance</em><em>,</em><em> </em><em>etc</em><em>.</em>
3 sentences with all three:
Proper noun bold.
Helping verb underlined.
Action verb italicized.
- My friend, Anna, <u>w</u><u>i</u><u>l</u><u>l</u> <em>dance</em> at the recital.
- The Golden Retriever <u>can</u> <em>speak</em>.
- Ella <u>might</u> <em>pick up</em> the library books today.
First of all, it's really sad that we're teaching poetry with questions like this, because this question really sucks the life and beauty out of reading poetry.
A is your best answer. Obviously knowing the literal meaning of a word is an essential first step to understanding what's happening in a poem. It's hard to analyze a poem if you don't know what the words mean to begin with. Once you know those meanings, you can then move on to thinking about metaphorical or figurative (i.e., non-literal) meanings of the same word.
B is partially right, but it's not the best answer. Certainly knowing the literal meaning of a word CAN help you determine the narrator, but not all poems have narrators, and sometimes the literal meaning won't help you figure out who the narrator is (especially if the narrator is deliberately left unclear).
C and D are wrong, and as a general rule in multiple-choice questions you should be very suspicious of answer-choices that use extreme language (like "useless") or that completely shut down a possibility entirely (which happens in choice C).
