WorksheetsElegy
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
A poem about lamenting the dead is called?
Ballad
Limerick
Haiku
Elegy
What is an elegy considered to be?
A humorous poem
A lighthearted poem
A depressing poem
A motivational poem
What kind of events are displayed in elegies?
Birthdays
Graduations
Weddings
Funerals
Where do elegies originate from?
Italy
Greece
Spain
Portugal
How are most elegies written?
In couplets
In sonnets
In quatrains
In paragraphs
What is the rhyme scheme for an elegy?
ABAB
ABCD
AABB
AABC
What are the three parts of an elegy?
Admiration, Reverence, Acceptance
Approbation, Embracing, Appreciation
Acceptance, Grief, Admiration
Satisfaction, Acknowledgement, Mourning
How many syllables are there per line in an elegy?
16
12
8
10
In the mid 1700s, who was the first British poet to write an elegy?
Thomas Wyatt
William Shakespeare
Thomas Gray
William Blake
In what time period did elegies originate?
600s
800s
900s
500s
