Poetry Lesson

How many words do you need to make a line in poetry?

• 1

• At least 5

• At least 3

• No more than 10

In her poem "To the Snake" what is Denise Levertov addressing?

• A snake

• Herself

• Her companions

• Nothing

what are we learning about

• rhyme scheme

• meter, rhyme scheme, sonnet

• meter, rhyme scheme

• meter, rhyme scheme, lyric poetry, sonnet

• meter, cat, lyric

Is a rhyme scheme important to poetry? Explain.

• yes

• no

• yes because if a poem does not have a rhyme scheme your poetry doesn't sound right.

• obviosly not poetry stinks

This is a piece of poetry? If so what type?

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate.

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer's lease hath all too short a date.

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimmed;

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed;

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,

Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,

When in eternal lines to Time thou grow'st.

So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

• Yes. lyric poetry

• no.

• Yes. a sonnet.

• Yes

What is a meter?

• An arrangement of words in a line of poetry to form a pattern based on stressed and unstressed syllables

• A poem that expresses a single complete thought in 14 lines with a certain rhyme scheme

• A type of emotional poetry commonly used

• The pattern of rhyming in a poem often indicated by letters

what is sonnet

• lyric poetry.

• a type of cat.

• a poet.

• all of the above.

• none of the above.

In the second poem we read in Lesson 2 what was the poet apologizing for?

• Chopping down his friend's house

• Eating plums

• Lying

• Being mean

What is the primary purpose of a poetry lesson?

• To analyze the structure and meaning of poems

• To memorize famous poems

• To write a novel

• To learn about historical events

Which of the following is a common element of poetry?

• Rhyme scheme

• Prose

• Chapters

• Footnotes