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Poetry Quiz Review

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Look at the picture. What type of poem is this?

a)

Haiku

b)

Villanelle

c)

Blues

d)

Ghazal

2.

Look at the picture. What type of poem is this?

a)

Haiku

b)

Villanelle

c)

Blues

d)

Ghazal

3.

Look at the picture. What type of poem is this?

a)

Haiku

b)

Villanelle

c)

Blues

d)

Ghazal

4.

Look at the picture. What type of poem is this?

a)

Haiku

b)

Villanelle

c)

Blues

d)

Ghazal

5.

What structure does a Haiku have?

a)

Line 1 -A

Line 2 -B

Line 3 -A

Line 4 -A

Line 5 -B

Line 1 -A

Line 6 -A

Line 7 -B

Line 3 -A

b)

5 syllables

7 syllables

5 syllables

c)

Line 1 + Rhyme + Refrain

Line 2 + Rhyme + Refrain

Line 3

Line 4 + Rhyme + Refrain

Line 9 + Name

Line 10 + Rhyme + Refrain

d)

Line 1 -A

Line 1 -A

Line 2 -A

Line 3 -B

Line 3 -B

Line 4 -B

Line 5 -C

Line 5 -C

Line 6 -C

6.

What structure does a Blues poem have?

a)

Line 1 -A

Line 2 -B

Line 3 -A

Line 4 -A

Line 5 -B

Line 1 -A

Line 6 -A

Line 7 -B

Line 3 -A

b)

5 syllables

7 syllables

5 syllables

c)

Line 1 + Rhyme + Refrain

Line 2 + Rhyme + Refrain

Line 3

Line 4 + Rhyme + Refrain

Line 9 + Name

Line 10 + Rhyme + Refrain

d)

Line 1 -A

Line 1 -A

Line 2 -A

Line 3 -B

Line 3 -B

Line 4 -B

Line 5 -C

Line 5 -C

Line 6 -C

7.

What structure does a Villanelle poem have?

a)

Line 1 -A

Line 2 -B

Line 3 -A

Line 4 -A

Line 5 -B

Line 1 -A

Line 6 -A

Line 7 -B

Line 3 -A

b)

5 syllables

7 syllables

5 syllables

c)

Line 1 + Rhyme + Refrain

Line 2 + Rhyme + Refrain

Line 3

Line 4 + Rhyme + Refrain

Line 9 + Name

Line 10 + Rhyme + Refrain

d)

Line 1 -A

Line 1 -A

Line 2 -A

Line 3 -B

Line 3 -B

Line 4 -B

Line 5 -C

Line 5 -C

Line 6 -C

8.

What structure does a Ghazal poem have?

a)

Line 1 -A

Line 2 -B

Line 3 -A

Line 4 -A

Line 5 -B

Line 1 -A

Line 6 -A

Line 7 -B

Line 3 -A

b)

5 syllables

7 syllables

5 syllables

c)

Line 1 + Rhyme + Refrain

Line 2 + Rhyme + Refrain

Line 3

Line 4 + Rhyme + Refrain

Line 9 + Name

Line 10 + Rhyme + Refrain

d)

Line 1 -A

Line 1 -A

Line 2 -A

Line 3 -B

Line 3 -B

Line 4 -B

Line 5 -C

Line 5 -C

Line 6 -C

9.

Who wrote "I felt a funeral in my brain"?

a)

Edgar Allan Poe

b)

Emily Dickinson

c)

Dylan Thomas

d)

Robert Hayden

10.

Who wrote "Po' Boy Blues"

a)

Emily Dickinson

b)

Agha Shahid Ali

c)

Langston Hughes

d)

Dylan Thomas

11.

Who wrote "The Raven" and "Annabel Lee"?

a)

Robert Hayden

b)

Lewis Carroll

c)

Maya Angelou

d)

Edgar Allan Poe

12.

Who wrote "Do not go gentle into that good night"?

a)

Dylan Thomas

b)

Agha Shahid Ali

c)

Emily Dickinson

d)

Robert Hayden

13.

Who wrote "Those Winter Sundays"?

a)

Emily Dickinson

b)

Edgar Allan Poe

c)

Langston Hughes

d)

Robert Hayden

14.

What is the theme or meaning of this stanza?

"Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture

I love) I shan’t have lied. It’s evident

the art of losing’s not too hard to master

though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster."

4 lines
15.

What is the theme or meaning of this stanza?

"When the rooms were warm, he’d call, and slowly I would rise and dress, fearing the chronic angers of that house,

Speaking indifferently to him, who had driven out the cold and polished my good shoes as well. What did I know, what did I know of love’s austere and lonely offices?"

4 lines
16.

What is the theme or meaning of this stanza?

"We passed the School, where Children strove

At Recess – in the Ring –

We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain –

We passed the Setting Sun –"

4 lines
17.

What is the theme or meaning of this poem?

"A red harvest moon:

around the pond I wander

and the night is gone."

4 lines