Poetry Ultra-Challenge Quiz

I see the bear/I feel fear is an example of...?

• half-rhyme

• slant rhyme

• eye rhyme

• double rhyme

Fill in the blank: monometer, dimeter, trimeter, _________, pentamter?

A Shakespearean Sonnet (select all that apply):

• is written in iambic pentameter

• Has 14 lines

• Has a volta

• Has an abab rhyme scheme

FILL IN THE BLANK:

Only a dad, with a tired face,

Coming home from the daily race,

Bringing little of gold or fame,

To show how well he has played the game,

But glad in his heart that his own _________

To see him come, and to hear his voice.

"Of Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit

Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tast

Brought Death into the World, and all our woe,

With loss of Eden, till one greater Man"

THESE LINES ARE WRITTEN IN _______?

"Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair" is an example of ________

"But no: when it begins, the flung spray hits

The very windows, spits like a tame cat

Turned savage. We just sit tight while wind dives

And strafes invisibly"

WHICH OF THE OPTIONS BELOW DO WE SEE IN THIS EXCERPT?

• Metaphor, Enjambment, Free Verse and Personification

• Simile, Enjambment, Free Verse and Onomatopoeia

• Simile, Enjambment, Blank Verse and Personification

• Simile, Enjambment, Free Verse and Personification

The opposite of hyperbole is ______

The clouds had given their all -

two days of rain and then a break

in which we walked,

the waterlogged earth

5 gulping for breath at our feet

as we skirted the lake, silent and apart,

until the swans came and stopped us

with a show of tipping in unison.

HOW MANY EXAMPLES OF PERSONIFICATION CAN YOU SEE?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveller, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

WHAT IS THE RHYME SCHEME?

• ABABC

• ABABA

• ABAAB

• ABBAB