Quiz about Poetry

In a poem, the use of the same word or phrase over and over again is called

• Repetition

• Stanza

• Line

• Poetry

What kind of poem is this?

I saw two seagulls

And a red bird in a tree

Waiting there for spring.

• Couplet

• Quatrain

• Ballad

• Haiku

What type of poem is this?

Into the wood the old king went

And greeted an ash and touched an oak.

Out of his sore soul's discontent

He sighed and spoke:

"Children I had, and they are dead.

A wife I had, and she is lost.

What do you do good trees," he said,

"At the hour of frost?"

The oak-trees soughed, the ash-tree sighed,

But never a word they gave that king.

The crow in the ash-tree cawed and cried,

But did not sing.

• Ballad

• Limerick

• Free Verse

• Quatrain

What type of poem is this?

There was a young rustic named Mallory,

who drew but a very small salary.

When he went to the show,

his purse made him go

to a seat in the uppermost gallery.

• Haiku

• Ballad

• Quatrain

• Limerick

What are these two lines an example of?

Whether or not we find what we are seeking

Is idle, biologically speaking.

• Quatrain

• Ballad

• Couplet

• Haiku

What are these lines an example of?

On the longest night of all the year

in the forests up the hill,

the little owl spoke soft and clear

to bid the night be longer still.

• Haiku

• Quatrain

• Couplet

• Free Verse

What type of poem is this?

A diesel freight truck

roars toward us.

A precipice is no mirage

for its metal plunge.

It is headlong nevertheless.

"It carries its own storm,"

I say dryly, feeling

my tongue wet my lips.

• Free verse

• Ballad

• Limerick

• Haiku

What type of poem is this?

There once was a man from Nantucket

Who kept all his cash in a bucket.

    But his daughter named, Nan

    Ran away with a man

And as for the bucket, Nantucket.

• Limerick

• Haiku

• Quatrain

• Ballad

What type of poem is this?

Bees nudged the flowers

Babies peeped out of the nest

One fine crisp morning

• Couplet

• Quatrain

• Haiku

• Limerick

In a poem, a term for words arranged in a row

• Haiku

• Line

• Meter

• Rhyme