
Poetry Quiz
Authored by Keren Behrmann
English
8th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Well, son, I'll tell you:/ Life for me ain't been no crystal stair./ It's had tacks in it,/ And splinters,/ And boards torn up,/ And places with no carpet on the floor--/ Bare. (Langston Hughes, 'Mother to Son')
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Idiom
Personification
Tags
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.8.5
CCSS.RL.7.10
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The prisoner would not answer, he only lay with wide, dark, bright, eyes (D. H. Lawrence, England, My England)
Pun
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Oxymoron
Tags
CCSS.RL.5.5
CCSS.RL.6.3
CCSS.RL.7.3
CCSS.RL.8.3
CCSS.RL.9-10.3
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The earth laughs beneath my heavy feet/ At the blasphemy in my old jangly walk (Billy Corgan, 'Thirty-three')
Personification
Hyperbole
Simile
Idiom
Tags
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.8.5
CCSS.RL.7.10
CCSS.RL.7.4
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
I dig my toes into the sand. / The ocean looks like/ A thousand diamonds strewn / Across a blue blanket. (Incubus, 'Wish You Were Here')
Metaphor
Analogy
Simile
Hyperbole
Tags
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.8.5
CCSS.RL.7.5
CCSS.RL.7.4
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary (Edgar Allan Poe)
Onomatopoeia
Idiom
Pun
Alliteration
Tags
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.8.5
CCSS.RL.7.10
CCSS.RL.7.5
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle (Edgar Allan Poe)
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Oxymoron
Hyperbole
Tags
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.8.5
CCSS.RL.7.5
CCSS.RL.7.4
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is the Rhyme Scheme of the first stanza?
ABAAB
ABABA
ACCBA
ABBAC
Tags
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.8.5
CCSS.RL.7.10
CCSS.RL.7.4
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