
"A Dirge" and Elegies
Authored by Mary Manning
English
9th - 12th Grade
CCSS covered
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
What is an elegy usually written about?
Loss and Death
Love and Happiness
Political Events
Nature
Tags
CCSS.RL.11-12.8
CCSS.RL.9-10.10
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.8.5
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is usually the structure of a traditional elegy?
A poem that follows the 3 stages of grief
A poem that has a beginning, middle, and end
A poem that contains a series of questions
A poem that is written in a sonnet format
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
An elegy is usually written in...
Couplets that rhyme
Quatrains that rhyme
An Octave with no rhyme scheme
Free Verse
Tags
CCSS.RL.11-12.8
CCSS.RL.9-10.10
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.8.5
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
An elegy must ALWAYS follow a strict format
False
True
Tags
CCSS.RL.11-12.8
CCSS.RL.9-10.10
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.8.4
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which line is an alliteration?
"cuckoo's calling"
"lambs were cropping"
"winds go sighing"
"green in the cluster"
Tags
CCSS.RL.11-12.8
CCSS.RL.9-10.10
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.8.5
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What line proves that the poem is about a person dying too young?
"You should have died at the apples' dropping"
"Why did you die when the lambs were cropping"
"For sweet things dying"
"You should have come to the cuckoo's calling"
Tags
CCSS.RL.11-12.8
CCSS.RL.9-10.10
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.8.4
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Line 1 indicates the person was born in winter. What season does Line 2 indicate the author feels they should have been born in?
Spring
Summer
Fall
Winter
Tags
CCSS.RL.11-12.8
CCSS.RL.9-10.10
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.8.4
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