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5th Grade Poetry

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 24mins

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Class
Date
1.

English author, Lewis Carroll wrote the novel Alice In Wonderland & the sequel Through the Looking lass. Which famous poem did he also write?

a)

Paul Revere's Midnight Ride

b)

The Spider and the Fly

c)

The Jabberwocky

d)

Casey at Bat

2.

Dr. Seuss is well known for his silly, nonsensical poems. Select two authors who also wrote nonsense poems?

a)

Emily Dickenson & Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

b)

Ernest Thayer & Elizabeth Barrett Browning

c)

Robert Frost & Mary Howitt

d)

Shel Silverstein & Lewis Carroll

3.

This is an example of what type of poetry?

a)

Concrete

b)

Shape

c)

Haiku

d)

Cinquain

4.

Select two types of poetry that require you to count the syllables in each line.

a)

Epic

b)

Cinquain

c)

Sonnet

d)

Haiku

5.

Which is an example of ALLiteration?

a)

Cat in the Hat

b)

Sister Suzy sat by the seashore

c)

Her eyes were like diamonds

d)

Her eyes were diamonds

6.

What are the first five words in Clement Clarke Moore's poem A Visit from St. Nicholas?

(a)  

7.

Francis Scott Key wrote a poem that became what?

a)

Our national anthem

b)

The declaration of independence

c)

The pledge of allegiance

8.

Fill in the blank to Elizabeth Barrett Browning's famous poem:

How do I love thee? Let me (a)   the ways.

9.

In Earnest Thayer's poem, Casey at Bat, did Casey hit a home run?

a)

Yes

b)

No

10.

In Mary Howitt's poem The Spider and The Fly, the fly is enticed into the spider's web by what?

a)

persistence

b)

threats

c)

gauzy wings

d)

silly flattering words

11.

Fill in the blank to Robert Frost's famous poem The Road Not Taken:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the (a)   .

12.

Fill in the blank to Henry Wadsworth Lonfellow's famous poem:

Listen, my children, and you shall hear of the midnight ride of (a)   .

13.

What did The Spider and the Fly by Mary Howitt teach you?

4 lines
14.

What did The Missing Piece by Shel Silverstein teach you?

4 lines
15.

Which poet or poem was your favorite? Why?

4 lines
16.

In Emily Dickenson's most famous poem she uses this metaphor "the thing with feathers" to describe what?

a)

birds

b)

hope

c)

love

d)

dance