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Worksheets5th Grade Poetry
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 24mins
English author, Lewis Carroll wrote the novel Alice In Wonderland & the sequel Through the Looking lass. Which famous poem did he also write?
Paul Revere's Midnight Ride
The Spider and the Fly
The Jabberwocky
Casey at Bat
Dr. Seuss is well known for his silly, nonsensical poems. Select two authors who also wrote nonsense poems?
Emily Dickenson & Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Ernest Thayer & Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Robert Frost & Mary Howitt
Shel Silverstein & Lewis Carroll
This is an example of what type of poetry?
Concrete
Shape
Haiku
Cinquain
Select two types of poetry that require you to count the syllables in each line.
Epic
Cinquain
Sonnet
Haiku
Which is an example of ALLiteration?
Cat in the Hat
Sister Suzy sat by the seashore
Her eyes were like diamonds
Her eyes were diamonds
What are the first five words in Clement Clarke Moore's poem A Visit from St. Nicholas?
(a)
Francis Scott Key wrote a poem that became what?
Our national anthem
The declaration of independence
The pledge of allegiance
Fill in the blank to Elizabeth Barrett Browning's famous poem:
How do I love thee? Let me (a) the ways.
In Earnest Thayer's poem, Casey at Bat, did Casey hit a home run?
Yes
No
In Mary Howitt's poem The Spider and The Fly, the fly is enticed into the spider's web by what?
persistence
threats
gauzy wings
silly flattering words
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) .
Fill in the blank to Henry Wadsworth Lonfellow's famous poem:
Listen, my children, and you shall hear of the midnight ride of (a) .
What did The Spider and the Fly by Mary Howitt teach you?
What did The Missing Piece by Shel Silverstein teach you?
Which poet or poem was your favorite? Why?
In Emily Dickenson's most famous poem she uses this metaphor "the thing with feathers" to describe what?
birds
hope
love
dance
