British Poetry Review

Which of the following is a subgenre of British poetry?

• pastoral

• blank verse

• SLAM

• free verse

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A British pastoral poem deals with shepherds and rustic life.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

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A poem that expresses grief at the loss of a friend or important person is a ...

• elegy

• allegory

• sonnet

• parody

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Which of the following poems do not fall under the carpe diem theme?

• Death, be not proud

• On my first son

• To the virgins, to make much of time

• A Valediction: Forbidding mourning

In "Eve's Apology in Defense of Woman," who does the author blame more for the fall in the Garden of Eden?

• Adam, he knew better

• Eve, she should have kept the knowledge to herself

• both Adam and Eve, they were equally at fault

• God, for not destroying the tree

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CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What is iambic pentameter?

• a line of poem that has five feet

• a line of poem that has no rhyme scheme

• a line of poem about pentagrams

• None of the above are correct

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CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What is NOT true of sonnet form?

• a fourteen line poem

• a poem written in iambic pentameter

• a poem with ABAB rhyme scheme

• a poem about death

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CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Which of the following is not a sonnet form we learned about?

• Italian

• English

• Spenserian

• American

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CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What is rhyme scheme?

• labeling the end rhymes of lines of poetry (for example, AABB)

• the way a poet writes a poem

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Which of the following is NOT something you do when analyzing a poem?

• label the rhyme scheme (ABAB)

• Try to figure out what the poet is saying

• answer questions about the poem

• just read the poem

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10