Poet
Quiz
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English
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8th Grade
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Hard
+23
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Sarah Williams
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25 questions
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Who was the poet pictured here? She wrote "Hope is a Thing with Feathers".
Maya Angelou
Jane Eyre
Janis Joplin
Emily Dickenson
Tags
CCSS.RL.7.4
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.8.5
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.", is a famous line from one of his Sonnets, who is this poet?
Walt Whitman
Daniel Defoe
William Shakespeare
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Tags
CCSS.RL.7.10
CCSS.RL.7.4
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.8.5
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
This poet wrote many poems during the Harlem Renaissance. Early innovator of the literary art form called jazz poetry.
Chubby Checker
Christopher Pike
Langston Hughes
Edgar Allen Poe
Tags
CCSS.RL.7.10
CCSS.RL.7.4
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.8.5
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
This poet is also credited with parenting two other popular genres: science fiction and the detective story. He began writing poetry as an adolescent. His poem, "To Helen" is a three stanza lyric that has been called one of the most beautiful love poems in the English language.
Lord Byron
John Keats
Edgar Allan Poe
Rudyard Kipling
Tags
CCSS.RL.7.10
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.8.5
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Aria, David, and Abigail are exploring the magical world of poetry! Can you help them identify the three main categories of poetry?
lyric and narrative.
lyric, narrative, and dramatic.
informative, expository, and narrative.
None of the above.
Tags
CCSS.RL.7.5
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.8.5
CCSS.RL.9-10.10
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Three main categories of poetry are
lyric and narrative.
lyric, narrative, and dramatic.
informative, expository, and narrative.
None of the above.
Tags
CCSS.RL.7.4
CCSS.RL.7.5
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.8.5
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
This poet had a broad career as a singer, dancer, actress, composer, and Hollywood’s first female black director, but became most famous as a writer, editor, essayist, playwright, and poet. She was also a civil rights activist. One of her most famous works is "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"
Harriet Tubman
Maya Angelou
Rosa Parks
Bess Carter
Tags
CCSS.RI.11-12.9
CCSS.RI.9-10.9
CCSS.RL.11-12.9
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
CCSS.RL.K.6
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