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WorksheetsThe Patriot
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 7mins
What style is the poem written in?
Iambic Pentameter
Dramatic monologue
Blank verse
None of the above
Who wrote the poem?
Robert Browning
Roald Dahl
Shel Silverstein
William Wordsworth
What is the literary device used in the phrase "The old walls rocked"?
Metaphor
Alliteration
Hyperbole
Personification
What do the lines "Had I said, "Good folk, mere noise repels--- But give me your sun from yonder skies!" They had answered, " And afterward, what else?" " represent?
The crowd jumping to catch the sun
The comparison between the crowd now and a year hence
The eagerness of the crowd to do as the patriot asks
The joy the crowd feels in conversing with the patriot
What is the theme of the poem?
Fickleness of God
Fickleness of public adulation
Everything wrong with the world
Discrimination
What is the meaning of palsied?
Diseased/ Paralyzed people
People at the windows set
Happy people
Fickle people
Why is the public congregating at Shambles' Gate?
To watch the Patriot get rewarded for his year of hard work
To watch the Patriot get hung for his year of misdeeds
To watch the Gladiators fight
To throw myrtle and roses in the Patriot's path
What is the irony in the sentence "For they fling, whoever has a mind, Stones at me for my year's misdeeds."?
The sentence says, whoever has a mind is flinging stones, but it is such a mindless activity in reality.
Because they are all going to get a taste of their own medicine in the following stanzas
Because The crowd themselves are getting hurt in the process
None of the above
The people will be paid for their deeds by whom?
Children
God
The Patriot
The crowd
What do roses signify in the poem?
Celebration
Marriage
Beauty
Blood
What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
ABCAB
ABABA
ABAB
ABBAB
What figure of speech is used in the line "It was roses, roses all the way"?
Alliteration
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
What is the juxtaposition between the sun in the first part of the poem and rain in the last?
They represent sadness and joy respectively
They represent glory/fame; pain, and, misery respectively
They represent pain, and misery; glory, and fame respectively
they represent happiness and sadness respectively
What is the irony of the path the patriot uses at the beginning and end of the story?
When he walks down it first, he is being greeted joyfully by the crowd. But later, he is walking the path to his demise.
When he walks down the path first, he is happy, but later he is upset about doing so
First when the patriot walks down the path, he is greeted by the crowd, but later he is going to massacre them
both B and C
