Unit 7 - Poem -My Computer Needs a Break

 

Unit 7 - Poem  -My Computer Needs a Break

A) Answer the following:

1. How does the poet describe her computer?

The poet describes her computer as brainy and smart.

2. What happened to the computer?

The computer started behaving badly; it forgot to save work, check spellings, and even caught a virus.

3. List four things that the computer could not do after it became absent-minded

Four things the computer could not do after it became absent-minded:

• It forgot to save the poet’s work.
• It hid files, making them vanish.
• It stopped checking spellings.
• It caught a virus and became sick.

4. What made the poet squirm?

The poet squirmed when the computer gobbled a worm and behaved erratically.

5. Why did the poet call the doctor?

The poet called the doctor because the computer caught a virus and became very sick

B) Fill in the blanks:

1. Computers are brainy and smart.
2. We get answers for questions by a click.
3. The computer forgot to save the poet's work.
4. The computer actually gobbled a worm.
5. The poet feels that his computer needs a holiday.

C) Pick out the rhyming words from the poem:

Smart - heart
Click - quick
Right - sight
Sick - quick

D) Match the poetic lines with Figures of Speech:

1. So brainy – Personification
2. Mountains – Metaphor 
3. It's so absent-minded – Personification
4. Computer gobbled a worm – Hyperbole
5. Very sick – Metaphor

E) Find the alliterating words from the poem:

1. Save - store
2. Doctor - double
3. Virus - very
4. Makes - most
5. Gobbled - greatly