5th Grade Poetry

English author, Lewis Carroll wrote the novel Alice In Wonderland & the sequel Through the Looking lass. Which famous poem did he also write?

• Paul Revere's Midnight Ride

• The Spider and the Fly

• The Jabberwocky

• Casey at Bat

Dr. Seuss is well known for his silly, nonsensical poems. Select two authors who also wrote nonsense poems?

• Emily Dickenson & Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• Ernest Thayer & Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• Robert Frost & Mary Howitt

• Shel Silverstein & Lewis Carroll

This is an example of what type of poetry?

• Concrete

• Shape

• Haiku

• Cinquain

Select two types of poetry that require you to count the syllables in each line.

• Epic

• Cinquain

• Sonnet

• Haiku

Which is an example of ALLiteration?

• Cat in the Hat

• Sister Suzy sat by the seashore

• Her eyes were like diamonds

• Her eyes were diamonds

What are the first five words in Clement Clarke Moore's poem A Visit from St. Nicholas?

Francis Scott Key wrote a poem that became what?

• Our national anthem

• The declaration of independence

• The pledge of allegiance

Fill in the blank to Elizabeth Barrett Browning's famous poem:

How do I love thee? Let me __________ the ways.

In Earnest Thayer's poem, Casey at Bat, did Casey hit a home run?

• Yes

• No

In Mary Howitt's poem The Spider and The Fly, the fly is enticed into the spider's web by what?

• persistence

• threats

• gauzy wings

• silly flattering words