Poetry Quiz

What device is used here:
"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary..."

• Refrain

• Rhyme

• Meter

• Simile

Who is this famous poet?

• Gwendolyn Brooks

• Maya Angelou

• Sylvia Plath

• Emily Dickinson

The voice that "talks" to the reader.

• Stanza

• Internal Rhyme

• End Rhyme

• Speaker

Shows the speaker's attitude toward his/her subject.

• Tone

• Symbol

• Theme

• Couplet

Which of these would be considered a poem?

• A paragraph from a novel.

• Song lyrics.

• A conversation between two people.

• Any sentence.

Definition of acrostic poem:

• First, last, and other letters in a line spell out a word

• Only last letters spell out a particular word or phrase

• All letters spell out a particular word or phrase

• None of the answers

Definition for Free Verse poem:

• Poem that doesn’t include a story

• Poem that tells a story

• Poem that is free from rhyme scheme

What type of poem is “Abandoned Farmhouse”?

• Lyric

• Ballad

• Free Verse

• Acrostic

What type of poem is "A Rose..."

• Lyric

• Ballad

• Haiku

• Free Verse

In the poem "Oh Captain..." we discover it is about Abe Lincoln

• true

• false