Junior Cert - Poems, Poets and Terminology

Which Poet wrote 'I wandered lonely as a cloud', also known as 'Daffodils'?

• Wordsworth

• Keats

• Yeats

• Dickinson

Which type of poetry best describes the work of Wilfred Owen?

• Nature

• Love

• War

• Hip-Hop

Which modern poet wrote 'The Rose That Grew From Concrete'?

• Shelley

• Sassoon

• Shakur

• Shakespeare

Where in Wales was Dylan Thomas born?

What poet could you link to the phrase 'Let America be America Again'?

• Langston Hughes

• Maya Angelou

• Sylvia Plath

• Patrick Kavanagh

What is the surname of the poet who wrote 'Ozymandias'?

'The greedy gorilla ate grapefruit' is an example of what?

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Similie

• Metaphor

'The chimp, limped to the blimp' is an example of what?

• Metaphor

• Enjambment

• Assonance

• Rhyme

'Her eyes were as blue as the waves' is an example of what?

• Similie

• Rhyme

• Assonance

• Alliteration

What is Enjambment?

• A full stop at the end of a poem.

• When two words make the same sound.

• A line of poetry that runs into the next line.

• Another name for a verse.