Poetry Notes Quiz
Directions: Answer the allowing questions using your notes.
For the first section, your answers will be one or two words.
1. Poetry is a type of writing
that uses what to create strong emotion?
2. What one word definition defines rhythm?
3. What word means “words used in a way to suggest more than the dictionary meanings”?
4. Rhyme is the repetition of what?
5. Meter is a length of a line of poetry, based on what type of
________ is used.
6. What is a group of lines of poetry called?
7. What is it called when rhyming occurs within the same line?
For this section, write down the figurative language or literary device
being used in each example.
8. My grandmother will not start the car unless she hears all seatbelts
click.
9. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day”
10. “The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,
The furrow followed free;
We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea.”
We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea.”
11. “. . . impressions poured in upon her of those two men, and to
follow her thought was like following a voice which speaks too quickly to be
taken down by one’s pencil . . .”
12. “Don’t act like a Romeo in front of her.” (the answer is not simile)
13. “Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing white for Eastertide.”
14. I am trying to solve a million issues today.
15. “Because I do not hope to turn again
Because I do not hope
Because I do not hope to turn…”
For this section, write down what type of poem each example is.
16. An old pond in view!
A frog jumps in the water–
the sound of splashing.
17. Knights
Armor ,shields
Fighting, charging, slaughtering
Worried, delighted, brave, fearsome
Crusaders
In their faces stern defiance,
In their hearts the feuds of ages.
The hereditary hatred,
The ancestral thirst of vengeance.
(This is part of a much larger
poem that tell has characters, plot, and setting.)
19.
There was a small boy of Quebec
Who was buried in snow to his neck
When they said, "Are you friz?"
He replied, " Yes, I is —
But we don't call this cold in Quebec."
For this section, you need to write down the rhyme scheme of the poem.
Example: AABBAA, ABCABCABC, ABBACDDC
20.
Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour:
England hath need of thee: she is a fen
Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen,
Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower,
Have forfeited their ancient English dower
Of inward happiness. We are selfish men;
Oh! raise us up, return to us again;
And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.
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