WorksheetsBeat, Beat Drums
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is the significance of the title of Beat! Beat! Drums! and the repetition of it in the first, second, and third stanzas?
a)
It sets the rhythm for the rest of the poem
b)
It is an onamonapia
c)
There is none
d)
It creates a sound like drums
2.
What is not a literary device used in this line?
Beat! beat! drums!—blow! bugles! blow!
Beat! beat! drums!—blow! bugles! blow!
a)
Alitteration
b)
Onamonapia
c)
Repetition
d)
Imagery
3.
What event is Whitman most likely alluding to in this poem?
a)
Revolutionary War
b)
Civil War
c)
Major American Battle
d)
World War 1
4.
What is the setting of this poem?
a)
The battlefield
b)
A home base
c)
A town
d)
A church
5.
What is the device used in line 8 and 15
a)
Consonance
b)
Assonance
c)
Refrain
d)
Imagery
6.
What kind of poem is this?
a)
Free Verse
b)
Ode
c)
Dramatic Monolouge
d)
Sonnet
7.
Who is the speaker speaking to?
a)
The audience
b)
The town
c)
The war
d)
The instruments
8.
What does the rhythm and the onomatopoeia parallel in the poem?
a)
The drums
b)
The bugles
c)
Military band
d)
Sound of war
9.
What do the bugles and drums symbolize?
a)
The sounds of war
b)
The war itself
c)
Soldiers marching in the town
d)
The townspeople's voices
10.
What would not be a theme of this poem?
a)
Rule and Order
b)
Death
c)
War
d)
Music
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