Structures in Poetry and Drama

An epic poem usually describes...

Un poema épico generalmente describe...

• a legendary figure.

• natural wonders.

• adventurous deeds.

• a hero.

• ordinary events.

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Which poetry form is NOT used to tell a story?

¿Qué forma de poesía NO se usa para contar una historia?

• A narrative.

• A ballad.

• An epic.

• An ode.

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Free verse has...

El verso libre tiene...

• a rhyme pattern.

• a specific shape.

• lines of any length.

• four quatrains.

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Limericks are BEST known for...

Los limericks son MEJOR conocidos por...

• describing nature.

• expressing emotions.

• being humorous.

• containing a moral.

Which kind of poem has three lines and paints a picture?

¿Qué tipo de poema tiene tres líneas y pinta un cuadro?

• Haiku.

• Concrete.

• Lyric.

• Epic.

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Which of the following is NOT a type of poetry?

¿Cuál de los siguientes NO es un tipo de poesía?

• Novella

• Limerick

• Sonnet

• Haiku

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When a longer poem is broken down into smaller groups of lines, those groups are known as...

Cuando un poema más largo se divide en grupos más pequeños de líneas, esos grupos se conocen como...

• acts.

• couplets.

• stanzas.

• scenes.

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Read the following verse by Cecil Frances Alexander from the poem, "All Things Bright and Beautiful."

In this stanza of the poem, the poet uses imagery to...

The purple-headed mountain,

The river running by,

The sunset, and the morning,

That brightens up the sky;

• illustrate the color of the mountain.

• demonstrate the beauty of the natural world.

• compare a sunset to a sunrise.

• explain the effect of the sun on the sky.

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Read excerpts from the poem "Nonsenses" by Edward Lear.

There was an Old Man with a beard,

Who said, "It is just as I feared!

Two owls and a hen,

Four larks and a wren,

Have all built their nests in my beard!"

The poet uses hyperbole, or exaggeration, to...

• add humor to the poem.

• make the birds symbols in the poem.

• add realism to the poem.

• make a point in the poem.

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Read these lines from the poem "A Song of Joys" by Walt Whitman.

The poet uses onomatopoeia, words that mimic sounds, to show...

O the engineer's joys! to go with a locomotive!

To hear the hiss of steam, the merry shriek, the steam-whistle, the laughing locomotive!

To push with resistless way and speed off in the distance.

• the engineer sounds like a locomotive.

• the hiss of the whistle sounds like laughter.

• the whistle sounds like it is screaming.

• the locomotive sounds like it is speeding.

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