Poetry Quiz

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Directions: Use the poem "The Look" to answer the questions about parts of speech. The parentheses indicate the line number

"The Look"
by Sara Teasdale
(1) Strephon kissed me in the spring,
(2) Robin in the fall,
(3) But Colin only looked at me
(4) And never kissed at all.

(5) Strephon's kiss was lost in jest,
(6) Robin's lost in play,
(7) But the kiss in Colin's eyes
(8) Haunts me night and day.

The word "but" is an example of a(n)

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conjunction

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Directions: Use the poem "The Look" to answer the questions about parts of speech. The parentheses indicate the line number

"The Look"
by Sara Teasdale
(1) Strephon kissed me in the spring,
(2) Robin in the fall,
(3) But Colin only looked at me
(4) And never kissed at all.

(5) Strephon's kiss was lost in jest,
(6) Robin's lost in play,
(7) But the kiss in Colin's eyes
(8) Haunts me night and day.

The word "me" is an example of a(n)

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pronoun

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Directions: Use the poem “A Poison Tree” to answer the questions.

“A Poison Tree”
by William Blake
I was angry with my friend;
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe:
I told it not, my wrath did grow.

And I water’d it in fears,
Night and morning with my tears:
And I sunned it with smiles,
And with soft deceitful wiles.

And it grew both day and night,
Till it bore an apple bright.
And my foe beheld it shine,
And he knew that it was mine.

And into my garden stole.
When the night had veiled the pole;
In the morning glad I see,
My foe outstretch’d beneath the tree.

Choose the series of words from the poem that convey the emotion of the poem.

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wrath, foe, deceitful

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Directions: Use the poem “A Poison Tree” to answer the questions.

“A Poison Tree”
by William Blake
I was angry with my friend;
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe:
I told it not, my wrath did grow.

And I water’d it in fears,
Night and morning with my tears:
And I sunned it with smiles,
And with soft deceitful wiles.

And it grew both day and night,
Till it bore an apple bright.
And my foe beheld it shine,
And he knew that it was mine.

And into my garden stole.
When the night had veiled the pole;
In the morning glad I see,
My foe outstretch’d beneath the tree.

The speaker's feelings are best described as __________.

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hurt and angry

Front 5

The most common category of poetry that expresses feelings and relies on rhyme and meter is known as __________ poetry.

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lyric

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments, love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
O no, it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wand'ring bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come,
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom:
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
-by William Shakespeare

A thematic structure refers to the __________ elements of words.

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symbolic

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In what poetic form is the following poem written?

Faucet drips water
Plinking on the porcelain
Splashes down the drain

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haiku

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The capitalized emphasis is placed below in order to best show __________.

I MADE them LAY their HAND in MINE and SWEAR

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measure

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The following sentence uses prepositions correctly.
Susan looked longingly at the couple dancing before her.

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True

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Read the following poem and answer the question below.
There is a solitude of space

A solitude of sea

A solitude of death, but these

Society shall be

Compared with the profounder site

That polar privacy

A soul admitted to itself--

Finite infinity.

The word "finite" in the last line is being used as a noun.

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False

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Lewis Carroll purposefully wrote ____ poetry.

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Nonsensical