Creative Writing 3.04 Styles and Forms of Poetry

Which type of poem is this an example of?

"There was a young man from Purdue,/He needed to find something new,/She started a band,/but we said it was bland,/so he's going straight back to Purdue."

• ode

• haiku

• limerick

• ballad

What is the rhyme scheme of most limericks?

• AABBA

• ABBBA

• ABCABC

• AAAB

Who dies at the end of Robert Frost's poem Out, Out-?

• the narrator

• the sister

• the boss

• the young boy

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Which type of poem is Robert Frost's Out, Out-?

• lyric

• narrative

• ballad

• epic

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Which statement about narrative poetry is true?

• It usually focuses on few images.

• It usually focuses on few key rhymes.

• It usually focuses on key characters.

• It usually focuses on expressing emotions.

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Which type of poem is The Highwayman an example of?

• ballad

• lyric

• epic

• limerick

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Which term is defined as poetry that is short in length and focuses on feelings and thoughts of the speaker or narrator?

• narrative

• lyric

• a ballad

• a haiku

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Which type of poem is The Tropics of New York by Claude McKay?

• free verse

• narrative

• lyric

• ode

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Which American poet was one of the first to write free verse?

• Walt Whitman

• William Burroughs

• William Wordsworth

• Emily Dickinson

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Who is one of the original masters of Haiku?

• Basho

• Virgil

• Dante

• Dickinson

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