National Poetry Month

What month is National Poetry Month?

• March

• April

• May

• June

The first ever National Poetry Month was celebrated in what year?

• 1986

• 1992

• 2013

• 1996

Which of these is cited as the first ever written piece of poetry?

• Homer's Iliad

• Homer's Odyssey

• Beowulf

• The Epic of Gilgamesh

These were a common way of capturing history during the Middle Ages.

• scribes

• tablets

• ballads

• scrolls

This was a lyrical poem that glorified a person or event.

• ballad

• ode

• hailku

• prose

Who introduced the three genres of poetry?

• Aristotle

• Socrates

• Plato

• Homer

This type of poetry was popular in the late 18th century.

• Sensationalist

• Metaphysical

• Romanticism

• Confessionalism

This type of poetry was popular in the 1950s.

• Romanticism

• Confessionalism

• Modernist

• Metaphysical

Which organization started National Poetry Month?

• The American Poets' Society

• The Dead Poets' Society

• The Academy of American Poets

• The National Poets' Society

What is the shortest poem?

• Haiku

• Roku

• Fubo

• Mahabharata