Which of the following is a correct sentence?
Poetry is very boring, it won't help me get a job.
I can't wait for this poetry class to end!
If your a poet you will be poor.
When the poetry starts.
Which word is spelled incorrectly?
metapher
imagery
simile
hyperbole
Which of the following is NOT a lyric poem?
If-
Ozymandias
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
What is No Good
Which spelling is correct?
apparrent
apparent
apparint
aparrent
What is a euphemism for "short?"
diminutive
luminous
ravenous
allegory
Percy Bysse Shelley
an Englisman who spent much of his life in Italy.
all of these.
died young.
was married to the author of Frankenstein.
What is the theme of Kipling's "IF?"
perseverence (persisting despite obstacles)
maturity
courage
all of these
Which spelling is incorrect?
benefit
chapter
sease
accept
Trochaic tetrameter
stresses the second, fourth, sixth and eighth syllables.
stresses the first, second and third syllables.
stresses the first, third and fifth syllables.
stresses the first, third, fifth and seventh syllables.
Which of the following contains an error? Describe the problem.
Are you're Grandparents coming from Barcelona spain.
Were flying to Paris for christmas.
All of them.
Their going to egypt for the Holidays.
What form of language is being used in the gif?
cliche
proverb
all of these
idiom
Which word is spelled incorrectly?
breif
cease
average
authority
What is the theme of The Gift of the Magi?
love
all of these
sacrifice
irony
What does James Berry want to remove from his beloved's world?
color
maybe all of these
pain
imperfection
William Butler Yeats
was Irish.
all of these.
won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
wrote "The Lake Isle of Innisfree."
A cinquain is
a stanza with 5 lines.
a line with 5 iambic feet.
a stanza with 4 lines.
a line with 5 trochaic feet.
James Berry was
won the Nobel Prize.
worked as a doctor.
a Jamaican who emigrated to the UK.
an American voice of the Harlem Renaissance.
"Approach" can be a noun AND a verb.
False
True
Which spelling is correct?
eccompany
acompany
ucompenie
accompany
Who wrote The Gift of the Magi?
Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet)
George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans)
George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)
O. Henry (William Sydney Porter)
Which word means refers to a nice way of saying something not so nice?
allegory
luminous
euphemism
curmudgeon
Which spelling is correct?
uccount
acount
account
akownt
Who was the first epic poet in European culture?
Shakespeare
Socrates
Hesiod
Homer
Emily Dickinson
became a recluse.
spent her entire life in Amherst, Massachusetts.
was almost unknown in her lifetime.
all of the above
Which of the following would we use in this sentence? "Are we _______ yet?"
their all write
there
they're
their
Which word is spelled correctly?
asure
assure
asshure
ashure
Shakespeare's meter in his plays is unrhymed iambic pentameter, also known as:
sonnets
epics
couplets
blank verse
Which spelling is correct?
axcept
accept
ecept
eccept
Which adjective best describes his behavior?
average
cantankerous
apathetic
flatulent
Which word means something ridiculous that is obviously not right?
allegory
balderdash
ravenous
average
Why do we call multiple haiku "haiku" and not "haikus?"
The "s" sound doesn't exist in Japanese.
Japanese is a syllabary rather than an alphabet.
It sounds more sophisticated.
Japanese nouns aren't pluralized (though some pronouns are).
Robert Frost
wrote limericks for children.
was unknown in his lifetime.
didn't like being around people.
is one of the most famous American poets.
How many lines in a sonnet?
12
5
3
14
Ozymandias was
a mythical character.
a character on a famous TV show.
the Greek name for Pharaoh Ramsess II.
another name for Napoleon.
Which of the following best describes this fellow?
ravenous
apathetic
diminutive
curmudgeon
A story that resembles the theme and narrative of another story is called an:
allegory
benefit
morality
chapter
Rudyard Kipling
wrote The Jungle Book.
won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
all of these
was an Englishman who spen years in India.
Benefit can be a noun AND an adjective.
False
True
Which word best describes this scene?
paucity
flatulence
luminous
balderdash
What literary device depicts nature in sympathy with the protagonist's mood?
hyperbole
pathetic fallacy
imagery
onomatopoeia
Which spelling is correct?
haikoo
high-ku
hikoo
haiku
What is a euphemism for "flatulence?"
rock the boat
fail upward
stink up a room
break wind
What imagery and ideas does Frost use in some of his poems?
all of these
decisions
woods
snow and ice
Dickinson mostly used which meter?
sonnets
iambic pentameter
free verse
iambic tetrameter
Which word is NOT pictured here?
abundance
excess
paucity
superfluity