Poetry Quiz

Identify the rhyme scheme in the following poem:

Roses are red,

Violets are blue,

Sugar is sweet,

And so are you.

• ABCB

• ABAB

• AABB

• ABBA

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Identify the rhyme scheme in the following poem:

The sun is shining bright,

The birds are taking flight,

The world is filled with light,

Everything feels just right.

• AABB

• ABCB

• ABAB

• AAAA

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Identify the rhyme scheme in the following poem:

How do I love thee?

Let me count the ways.

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height

My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight

For the ends of

Being and ideal Grace.

• ABCCDB

• ABABAB

• ABBACC

• ABCDEF

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Identify the type of meter used in the following poem:

Shall I / compare / thee to / a sum / mer's day?

Thou art / more love / ly and / more temp / erate:

Rough winds / do shake / the dar / ling buds / of May,

And sum / mer's lease / hath all / too short / a date.

• Trochaic tetrameter

• Iambic pentameter

• Limerick

• Haiku

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Organize these poems into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Haiku

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(b) Limerick

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(c) Concrete

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(d) Acrostic

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What is the main purpose of blackout poetry?

• To create a new meaning by blacking out certain words in an existing text.

• To create a poem by writing in the dark.

• To create a poem about the concept of 'blackout' or 'darkness'.

• To create a poem by using only black ink.

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What is a characteristic feature of free verse poetry?

• It has a fixed rhyme scheme.

• It adheres to a specific meter.

• It does not have a set structure or pattern.

• It always contains a moral lesson.

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Identify the type of poetry in the following excerpt:

April is the cruellest month, breeding

Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing

Memory and desire, stirring

Dull roots with spring rain.

• Sonnet

• Haiku

• Free verse

• Limerick

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Identify the type of poetry in the following excerpt:

The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon,
The winds that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers,
For this, for everything, we are out of tune;
It moves us not.—Great God! I’d rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathéd horn.

• Elegy

• Blank Verse

• Sonnet

• Acrostic

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An ​ (a)   is a celebratory poem about a subject. An ​ (b)   is a poem mourning about a subject.

• ode
• elegy
• haiku
• blank verse
• lullaby

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