Poetry Test

What is NOT true about haiku poems?

• They're usually about nature.

• They originated in Japan.

• They have 25 syllables total.

• They have 3 lines.

Limericks are usually

• lengthy

• silly or humorous

• about the seasons

• written in free verse

A limerick's rhyme scheme is

• ABAB

• AABBA

• ABCDE

• AABCB

Which poet lends his name to a type of sonnet he helped make famous?

• William Blake

• William Shakespeare

• William Butler Yeats

• William Carlos Williams

A Shakespearean sonnet is composed of

• seven stanzas

• two limericks in a row

• four quatrains and a couplet

• three quatrains and a couplet

What is NOT true about Shakespearean sonnets?

• They have fourteen lines.

• They are often about love.

• They have no specific meter.

• They have a set rhyme scheme.

A ballad is a poem that

• tells a story.

• is usually funny.

• describes a setting.

• is never read aloud.

True or False: A concrete poem is shaped like what it describes.

• True

• False

Concrete poems

• always rhyme

• always form a shape or picture.

• are always 15 lines long.

• are always written in iambic pentameter.

What is meter?

• the number of lines in a poem

• the type of words used in a poem

• the pattern of stressed and unstressed lines in a poem

• the cycle of rhyming and non-rhyming words in a poem