Poetry Quiz

A group of lines in a poem?

• Theme

• Stanza

• Free Form

• Pattern

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

The voice that is talking to us in a poem is referred to as what?

• author

• speaker

• poet

• audience

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

This poem is an example of

• free verse

• haiku

• limerick

• ballad

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

When talking about poetry, what is meter?

• the length of the poem

• the "beat" of the poem

• the sound of the poem

• the look of the poem

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What gives human qualities to something that is non-human?

• Sensory Language 

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia 

• Personification 

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Free verse poetry does not have...

• stanzas

• plot or conflict

• rhyming pattern

• serious topic

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

poetry that has no regular rhythm, meter, rhyme, or structure

• free verse 

• ode

• haiku

• prose

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What are words that imitate sounds?

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• synonym

• simile

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Which of these lines from Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven” contains alliteration?

• Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary

• “’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door

• Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The piano sang a mournful song. 

• Personification 

• NOT Personification 

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A