Read the poem and answer question 25-30
The Final Laugh by Tracy Alan White
1 A bullfrog plump named Ogden Glump
hopped into a bog
and landed splud amid the mud,
5 But whizzing by came Buzz McFly,
the local razzing pest,
he saw the frog stuck in the bog,
so nearby came to rest.
With ornery glee he laughed, “hee hee,”
10 rejoicing in his luck to see below his bloated
foe, helpless in the muck.
“Your mom’s a toad!”he loudly crowed,
“and oh the rotten break,
while on his pad,
15 your poor old dad was swallowed by a snake!”
But Ogden Glump,
the bullfrog plump,
trained a marksman’s eye,
and with lightning slurp and froggy burp,
20 he swallowed Buzz McFly!
A. Each group of lines presents a new detail about the setting.
B. Words at the beginning and end of each line are short to create a fast rhythm.
C. Important phrases are repeated throughout to show the personalities of the
characters.
D. Sounds at the ends of the lines and within the long lines create a regular rhyming
pattern.
A. “amid the mud”and “helpless in the muck”
B. “whizzing by”and “razzing pest”
C. “on his pad”and “swallowed by a snake”
D. “bullfrog plump”and “lightning slurp”
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