Which word is spelled incorrectly?
cease
average
breif
authority
Which word is NOT pictured here?
excess
abundance
superfluity
paucity
What is the theme of Kipling's "IF?"
maturity
all of these
perseverence (persisting despite obstacles)
courage
What imagery and ideas does Frost use in some of his poems?
snow and ice
woods
all of these
decisions
What does James Berry want to remove from his beloved's world?
color
pain
imperfection
maybe all of these
Shakespeare's meter in his plays is unrhymed iambic pentameter, also known as:
couplets
blank verse
epics
sonnets
Rudyard Kipling
was an Englishman who spen years in India.
won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
all of these
wrote The Jungle Book.
James Berry was
won the Nobel Prize.
an American voice of the Harlem Renaissance.
worked as a doctor.
a Jamaican who emigrated to the UK.
Robert Frost
didn't like being around people.
is one of the most famous American poets.
wrote limericks for children.
was unknown in his lifetime.
Percy Bysse Shelley
an Englisman who spent much of his life in Italy.
died young.
was married to the author of Frankenstein.
all of these.
Ozymandias was
a character on a famous TV show.
a mythical character.
the Greek name for Pharaoh Ramsess II.
another name for Napoleon.
Which of the following is NOT a lyric poem?
If-
Ozymandias
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
What is No Good
William Butler Yeats
all of these.
was Irish.
wrote "The Lake Isle of Innisfree."
won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Trochaic tetrameter
stresses the first, third, fifth and seventh syllables.
stresses the first, second and third syllables.
stresses the first, third and fifth syllables.
stresses the second, fourth, sixth and eighth syllables.
A cinquain is
a line with 5 iambic feet.
a stanza with 4 lines.
a line with 5 trochaic feet.
a stanza with 5 lines.
Which spelling is correct?
high-ku
hikoo
haiku
haikoo
