READING: Academic Language Aris AA) Poetry Three Funny Poems Billy Button by Anonymous Billy Button bought a buttered biscuit. Did Billy Button buy a buttered biscuit? If Billy Button bought a buttered biscuit, Where's the buttered biscuit Billy Button bought? A Fly and a Flea in a Flue by Anonymous A fly and a flea in a flue Were imprisoned, so what could they do? Said the fly, “let us flee!” . “Let us fly!” said the flea, And they flew through a flaw in the flue flue: the tube inside a chimney Motto for a Dog by Arthur Guiterman Hove this litle house because i It offers after dark, ‘A pause for rest, a rest for paws, A place to moor my bark ‘moor: to tie up a boat with ropes or chains at a dock eclir ‘© The Continental esse. DUPLICATING THIS MATERIAL IS ILLEGAL.; READING: Academic Language Arts_ (9) Poetry 4. Alliteration is the repetition of a vowel or consonant sound at the beginning of words. Which line from one of the poems on page 86 does not use alliteration? @® Aly anda flea ina flue Were imprisoned, so what could they do? © Billy Button bought a buttered biscuit. And they flew through a flaw in the flue. 2. Read the poem “Motto for a Dog” on page 86 again. The poem contains a metaphor that compares two unlike things. What is the poet comparing? @® tt compares the dark to a river. It compares a doghouse to a boat dock. © ttcompares a dog's bark to a rope. @® It compares a dog's paws to a chain SSON 19 UNIT 2 Readin; ‘©The Continental esc. DUPLICATING THIS MATERIAL IS ILLEGAL.READING: Academic Language Arts Poetry 3. Homophones are words that sound the same but are spelled differently and have different meanings. Which line below contains homophones? ® _ Where’ the buttered biscuit Billy Button bought? @® Said the fly, “Let us flee!” © Move this little house because ® A pause for rest, a rest for paws. 4. Personification is giving human qualities to nonhuman subjects. Read "A Fly and a Flea in a Flue” on page 86 again. What shows personification in this poem? @® The insects are inside a flue. The insects are able to fly. | © The insects talk to each other. © The insects fly out of the flue. Pe UN 2a Ue ‘© The Continental Press, Inc. DUPLICATING THIS MATERIAL IS ILLEGAL,