J3 Comprehension Term 3 June Assessment

SECTION 1Study the advertisement below and answer the questions. (9 marks) 1) What is the purpose of this advertisement? (1 mark) 2) Who is the target audience of this advertisement? (1 mark) 3) What are three things advertised that will appeal to the target audience? (3 marks) 4) Which persuasion technique was used in this advertisement? Explain your answer. (2 marks) 5) Name the company that created this advertisement? (1 mark) 6) This is a newspaper advertisement. Name the media form. (1 mark) SECTION 2Read the poem, then answer the questions below in complete sentences. (15 marks) A Bird Came Down the Walkby Emily DickinsonA Bird came down the Walk—He did not know I saw—He bit an Angleworm in halvesAnd ate the fellow, raw,And then he drank a Dew 5From a convenient Grass—And then hopped sidewise to the WallTo let a Beetle pass—He glanced with rapid eyes That hurried all around— 10They looked like frightened Beads, I thought—He stirred his Velvet HeadLike one in danger, Cautious, I offered him a CrumbAnd he unrolled his feathers 15And rowed him softer home—Than Oars divide the Ocean,Too silver for a seam—Or Butterflies, off Banks of NoonLeap, plashless as they swim. 20Angleworm is an earthworm.Velvet is a type of fabric but is commonly used to describe something that is smooth.Plashless means without splashing or flowing smoothly. 7) What is the speaker watching throughout this poem? (1 mark) a leaf a beetle a bird a worm 8) This poem uses rhyme in many places. What are two lines of the poem that rhyme? (1 mark) lines 2 and 4 lines 1 and 3 lines 2 and 3 lines 3 and 4 9) Read lines 9-13 of the poem. Based on this evidence, what can you conclude about how the bird is feeling? (1 mark) nervous and scared proud and strong excited and happy bored and restless 10) When in the poem does the bird most likely notice that the speaker is watching him? (1 mark) lines 9-10 lines 17-18 lines 1-2 lines 7-8 11) What is the main idea of this poem? (1 mark) A bird comes down the walk but flies away when the speaker offers him a crumb. A bird comes down the walk, eats a worm, and drinks a dewdrop from some grass. A bird comes down the walk and eats crumbs out of the speaker’s hand. A bird comes down the walk and then swims through a puddle of water. 12) Read these lines from the poem:He stirred his Velvet HeadLike one in danger, Cautious,I offered him a CrumbAnd he unrolled his feathersAnd rowed him softer home—Than Oars divide the Ocean,What does the phrase “rowed him softer home” mean here? (1 mark) chirped quietly hopped onto a boat flew away softly swam through a puddle 13) Read these lines from the poem:He glanced with rapid eyesThat hurried all around—They looked like frightened Beads, I thought—To whom or what does the word “they” refer? (1 mark) the speaker and the bird the bird and his friends the bird’s wings the bird’s eyes 14) Read the first two stanzas of the poem. What are three things that the bird does in this part of the poem? (3 marks) 15) Describe how the bird probably feels in the first two stanzas of the poem. Use evidence from the poem to support your answer. (3 marks) 16) How do the bird’s feelings change over the course of the poem? Use evidence from the text to support your answer. (2 marks) 17) What is the rhyme scheme of stanza one in this poem? (1 mark)