Promises Like Pie-Crust, A Birthday / Christina Rossetti

Test Practice

Compare and Contrast Poems

With your partner, discuss how to answer these questions about the selection.

1. What do promises and pie crusts have in common?
a. The speaker loves both promises and pie crusts.
b. The speaker cannot make a pie crust so she will not make promises.
c. Promises, like pie crusts, are hard to make, yet easily broken.
d. Promises may constrict people, like a crust constrains a pie.


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