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WorksheetsShrub Street Friday Quiz 2
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
Which kind of poem consists of 3 lines and 17 syllables?
haiku
rhyme
kenning
sonnet
Complete this famous line from a poem - 'I wandered lonely as a .....?'
clown
cloud
sheep
shadow
In the Ning Nang Nong - what do the teapots do?
jabber jibber joo
jibber jabber joo
joober jibber ja
jabber joober jib
It is believed that the vikings started which form of poetry?
haiku
kenning
riddle
rhyme
Who wrote 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt?'
Roald Dahl
James Carter
Michael Rosen
Roger McGough
The nonsense poem, The Jabberwocky, was written by...
Spike Milligan
Edward Lear
Lewis Carroll
William Shakespeare
In the Owl and the Pussycat, what colour was their boat?
sky- blue
pea - green
sea - green
ocean - blue
Roald Dahl wrote: "As soon as Wolf began to feel/that he would like a decent meal/he went and knocked on Grandma's door/when Grandma opened it, she saw..."
"a hairy snout and scary eyes"
"very scary teeth and claws"
"a wolf, and wouldn't let him in"
"the sharp white teeth, the horrid grin"
Who wrote 'The Cat in the Hat'?
Dr Seuss
Dr Zeus
Dr Soos
Dr Zoos
Once upon a midnight dreary,
While I pondered, weak and weary,
Is the beginning of which poem?
The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe
Invictus by William Ernest Henley
No Man is an Island by John Donne
John Barleycorn by Robert Burns
What was the title of Rudyard Kipling's famous poem?
if
is
a
an
Which type of flower is mention in the John McCrae poem 'In Flanders Fields'?
Carnation
Tulip
Poppy
Rose
What is the subject of this year's National Poetry Day?
sound
vision
rhyme
rhythm
In the rhyme, 'The Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly'. How many creatures did she eat altogether?
7
8
9
10
Complete the limerick...
There was a young lady named Bright
who travelled much faster than light.
She set out one day
in a relative way,
and came back the previous night.
and her was really white.
but her shoes were very tight.
my favourite teacher is Mr Wright.
Which of the colours below are impossible to rhyme with?
blue
purple
orange
silver
Complete the verse of 'Aliens Stole My Underpants' By Brian Moses
And I’ve always wondered why
on their journey from the stars,
these aliens stole my underpants
and took them back to ....
Ours
Mars
Grandma's
Space
What is special about narrative poetry?
The subject is true
It tells a story
It has 900 words
It makes no sense
TS Eliot wrote about an animal called MaCavity, the Mystery ...
dog
cat
pig
eel
William Shakespeare famously wrote which type of poetry?
kennings
limericks
haikus
sonnets
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
.....................................................................
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
Hip hip hip hip hooray
I like to move it, move it
Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers
Who is this?
Roald Dahl
Spike Milligan
Boris Johnson
James Carter
Which of the kennings below describes a large car?
An egg-chaser
A people-carrier
An ankle-biter
A show-stopper
In Roald Dahl's version of 'Snow White and the 7 Dwarves' what job did the dwarves do?
They were jockeys
They were miners
They were footballers
They were dancers
How many syllables are there in the word watermelon?
2
3
4
5
Which topic is James Carter's favourite for writing poems?
Sport
Space
Spiders
Sponges
The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees.
The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas.
The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,
And the ...................... came riding—
Riding—riding—
The ................... came riding, up to the old inn-door.
Which word is missing from above
jockey
highwayman
motorcyclist
cowboy
Which country do haikus originate from?
China
Japan
Italy
Spain
Which of these sentences contains a simile?
The cold, black night was wet and windy.
The cold, black night was as wet and windy as a dragon's sneeze.
The cold black night was a wet and windy dragon's sneeze.
The dragon's sneeze was like wet and windy.
Miss Greet read out a poem called 'Who Knows?' but who wrote it?
Liz Brownlee
Lee Brownliz
Liz Greenlee
Liz Bluelee
