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May 2, 2023

Test-Your-Poetry-Knowledge: 50 Multiple-Choice Questions

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Whether you consider yourself a seasoned poetry expert or someone who enjoys reading the occasional verse, we promise these questions will provide hours of entertainment and enlightenment. So, dust off your books and get ready to dive into the fascinating world of poets and their masterpieces! Let the quiz begin!

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1 / 50

What is alliteration?

a) A literary device where rhyming words are grouped together

b) A literary device where words begin with the same sound

c) A literary device where words are repeated throughout the poem

2 / 50

“I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.”

– What is the title of this poem?

Song of Myself

Leaves of Grass

The Waste Land

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

3 / 50

“I am the master of my fate,

I am the captain of my soul.”

– What is the title of this poem?

Invictus

Howl

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

The Waste Land

4 / 50

“The Waste Land” is a famous poem by T.S. Eliot. What is the next line of this poem after “April is the cruellest month”?

Mixing memory and desire,

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

Unreal city,

A heap of broken images,

5 / 50

What is the name of the poetic form consisting of four-line stanzas, with a rhyme scheme of ABAB, typically used to express love or praise?

Rondeau

Pantoum

Ballade

Villanelle

6 / 50

As a Saint Lucian poet and playwright, his legacy is marked by the publication of Green Night: Poems 1948-1960 and his epic poem Omeros, which continue to be revered by readers and critics alike.

Derek Walcott

Dylan Thomas

William Butler Yeats

7 / 50

“Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me -”

– What is the next line of this poem?

And I had put away my labor, and my leisure too, for his civility.

The carriage held but just ourselves and Immortality.

Life, scarce as morning mist, I see, Thy fleeting forms elude my grasp;– I follow fast;

I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills

8 / 50

What is the definition of synecdoche?

A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole

Using words or phrases to create mental images in the reader’s mind

A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole.

9 / 50

What is imagery?

a) A type of painting

b) A literary device where words create mental images

c) A type of poem that is based on an image or several images

10 / 50

What is the name of the poetic form in which the poem’s shape on the page reflects its subject matter?

Concrete poetry

Cento

Ghazal

Cinquain

11 / 50

The American writer, who went by the names LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, was celebrated for his works encompassing poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism.

Jalaluddin Rumi

Amiri Baraka

Nizar Qabbani

Ted Hughes

12 / 50

“And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.”

– What is the title of this poem?

The Waste Land

The Road Not Taken

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

13 / 50

Which of the following poetic forms is characterized by a repeated refrain, alternating with a series of quatrains, with a final quatrain as a coda?

Villanelle

Rondeau

Pantoum

Ghazal

14 / 50

“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate:”

– What is the next line of this sonnet?

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

But thy eternal summer shall not fade

15 / 50

“The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.”

– Who is the author of this poem?

Carl Sandburg

William Carlos Williams

Langston Hughes

Robert Frost

16 / 50

What is rhyme?

a) A type poem that is used primarily in music

b) A literary device where words look the same but do not sound the same

c) A literary device where words have similar sounds

17 / 50

What is the name of the poetic form consisting of a single line, typically with a specific syllable count or word limit, and often used to convey a strong emotion or idea?

Monostich

Epigram

Sonnet

Elegy

18 / 50

What is the definition of a metaphor?

A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable

The repetition of the same sound or letter at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

A comparison between two things that does not use "like" or "as"

19 / 50

“Daddy” is a famous poem by Sylvia Plath. What is the next line of this poem after “You do not do, you do not do / Any more, black shoe”?

In which I have lived like a foot

I have always been scared of you,

The vampire who said he was you

The snows of the Tyrol, the clear beer of Vienna

20 / 50

What is onomatopoeia?

a) A type of language

b) A literary device where words imitate sounds

c) A type of dance

21 / 50

What is a stanza?

a) A type of musical instrument

b) A group of lines in a poem

c) A literary device where words have similar sounds

22 / 50

What is the definition of apostrophe?

A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable

A figure of speech in which an absent or imaginary person or thing is addressed as if it were present and capable of responding

Using words or phrases to create mental images in the reader’s mind

23 / 50

Which of the following poetic forms is characterized by a poem that tells a story through a series of quatrains, with a rhyme scheme of ABAB?

Ballad

Villanelle

Rondeau

Pantoum

24 / 50

“A Contribution to Statistics” is a famous poem by Wislawa Szymborska. What is the next line of this poem after “Out of a hundred people”?

Those who always know better:

Those who always wet a finger before turning a page;

Those who consider themselves immortal;

Those who can’t look you in the eye;

25 / 50

“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;” – What is the next line of this poem by T.S. Eliot?

And licked the darkness from my spoon.

The morning comes to consciousness

The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes

In the room the women come and go

26 / 50

What is the definition of hyperbole?

Giving human characteristics to non-human objects or animals

Using exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally

Using words or phrases to create mental images in the reader’s mind

27 / 50

What is the name of the poetic form consisting of a series of unrhymed tercets followed by a quatrain, with the same end words used throughout the poem in a specific pattern?

Terza rima

Villanelle

Sestina

Rondeau

28 / 50

“We real cool. We left school. We lurk late.”

– What is the next line of this poem by Gwendolyn Brooks?

We strike straight. We sing sin.

We die soon.

e jazz June. We die soon.

We break the rules. We make the rules.

29 / 50

“I wandered lonely as a cloud,

That floats on high o’er vales and hills,

When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host, of golden daffodils.”

– What is the title of this poem?

Ode to a Nightingale

To His Coy Mistress

The Waste Land

Daffodils

30 / 50

“The woods are lovely, dark and deep,

But I have promises to keep,

And miles to go before I sleep,

And miles to go before I sleep.”

– What is the title of this poem?

The Waste Land

The Road Not Taken

Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

31 / 50

“Poetry” is a famous poem by Pablo Neruda. What is the next line of this poem after “And it was at that age… Poetry arrived”?

Like the wind, like a whisper, like a prayer

And it was slippery, silky as a fox

It came from the soul of the world

In search of me, without a face, without a name

32 / 50

“Ozymandias” is a famous poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley. What is the next line of this poem after “I met a traveller from an antique land”?

Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone

Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,

Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown

And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,

33 / 50

Which of the following poetic forms is characterized by three stanzas of three lines each and a final quatrain?

Villanelle

Sestina

Terza rima

Rondeau

34 / 50

“Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all.”

– Who is the author of this poem?

Emily Dickinson

Sylvia Plath

Maya Angelou

Anne Sexton

35 / 50

“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” is a famous sonnet by William Shakespeare. What is the next line of this poem after “Thou art more lovely and more temperate:”?

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May

And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:

Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

36 / 50

Which of the following poetic forms is characterized by three-line stanzas, with the second line repeating as the last line of the previous stanza?

Sestina

Terza rima

Terzanelle

Villanelle

37 / 50

What is the definition of metonymy?

A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable

A figure of speech in which a thing or concept is referred to by the name of something closely associated with it

The repetition of the same sound or letter in the middle or at the end of adjacent or closely connected words

38 / 50

What is the name of the poetic form in which a single poem is created by combining lines from multiple different poems, typically by different authors?

Found poetry

Haiku

Tanka

Ghazal

39 / 50

What is repetition?

a) A literary device where words or phrases are repeated for emphasis

b) A type of performance

c) A rap style

40 / 50

What is the name of the poetic form in which the first letter of each line spells out a word or phrase?

Elegy

Acrostic

Ode

Villanelle

41 / 50

“It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of Annabel Lee.”

– Who is the author of this poem?

Emily Dickinson

Edgar Allan Poe

Robert Browning

Walt Whitman

42 / 50

What is the definition of simile?

A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable

A comparison using "like" or "as"

The repetition of the same sound or letter at the end of adjacent or closely connected words

43 / 50

What is the definition of alliteration?

The repetition of the same sound or letter at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

The repetition of the same sound or letter at the end of adjacent or closely connected words

The repetition of the same sound or letter in the middle of adjacent or closely connected words

44 / 50

“Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.”

– Who is the author of this poem?

Lord Byron

Percy Bysshe Shelley

William Wordsworth

Alfred Lord Tennyson

45 / 50

Which of the following poetic forms is characterized by six sestets and a final tercet, with a complex pattern of repeating end words?

Sestina

Rondeau

Villanelle

Ghazal

46 / 50

This coyness, lady, were no crime.

We would sit down,

and think which way To walk,

and pass our long love’s day.”

– What is the title of this poem?

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

To His Coy Mistress

The Waste Land

Howl

47 / 50

What is the definition of irony?

A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable

The repetition of the same sound or letter at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

A contrast between expectation and reality

48 / 50

“The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!”

– Who is the author of this poem?

William Wordsworth

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Lord Byron

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

49 / 50

“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is a famous poem by T.S. Eliot. What is the next line of this poem after “Do I dare / Disturb the universe?”?

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons

And in short, I was afraid

No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be

Let us go then, you and I

50 / 50

“Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.”

– What is the title of this poem?

Ode to a Nightingale

Invictus

The Waste Land

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

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The average score is 62%

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Famous Poems: 20 Multiple-Choice Questions

1 / 20

"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach."

- Who is the author of this poem?

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Emily Dickinson

Christina Rossetti

Sylvia Plath

2 / 20

"Do not stand at my grave and weep, I am not there; I do not sleep. I am a thousand winds that blow, I am the diamond glints on snow."

- What is the title of this poem?

I Do Not Sleep

Glints On Snow

When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer

Do not stand at my grave and weep

3 / 20

"Oh, my luve is like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June: Oh, my luve is like the melodie, That's sweetly play'd in tune."

- What is the title of this poem?

Ode to a Nightingale

Ode on a Grecian Urn

A Red, Red Rose

Sonnet 18

4 / 20

"The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on."

- Who is the author of this poem?

Carl Sandburg

William Carlos Williams

Langston Hughes

Robert Frost

5 / 20

"A Contribution to Statistics" is a famous poem by Wislawa Szymborska. What is the next line of this poem after "Out of a hundred people"?

Those who always know better:

Those who always wet a finger before turning a page;

Those who consider themselves immortal;

Those who can't look you in the eye;

6 / 20

"Ode to a Nightingale" is a famous poem by John Keats. What is the next line of this poem after "My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains"?

My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,

My thoughts, in company with the Nightingale

Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn,

And magic casements, opening on the foam

7 / 20

"Ozymandias" is a famous poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley. What is the next line of this poem after "I met a traveller from an antique land"?

Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone

Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,

Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown

And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,

8 / 20

"Poetry" is a famous poem by Pablo Neruda. What is the next line of this poem after "And it was at that age... Poetry arrived"?

Like the wind, like a whisper, like a prayer

And it was slippery, silky as a fox

It came from the soul of the world

In search of me, without a face, without a name

9 / 20

"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date."

- What is the title of this poem?

A Summer's Day

Sonnet 18

Summer's Lease

The Darling Buds Of May

10 / 20

"I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils."

- What is the title of this poem?

Ode to a Nightingale

Endymion

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

11 / 20

"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary," - What is the next line of this poem by Edgar Allan Poe?

Ah, distinctly I remember, it was in the bleak December;

A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling My beautiful Annabel Lee;

Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine;

Do not go gentle into that good night,

12 / 20

"Tyger Tyger, burning bright,

In the forests of the night;

What immortal hand or eye,

Could frame thy fearful symmetry?"

- Who is the author of this poem?

William Wordsworth

John Keats

William Blake

Percy Bysshe Shelley

13 / 20

"Sonnet 29" is a famous sonnet by William Shakespeare. What is the next line of this poem after "When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,"?

I all alone beweep my outcast state,

And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,

And look upon myself, and curse my fate,

And seek for refuge in thy sweet embrace,

14 / 20

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing."

- What is the title of this poem?

Endymion

Don Juan

The Giaour

Ode to a Nightingale

15 / 20

"I am the master of my fate,

I am the captain of my soul."

- What is the title of this poem?

Invictus

Howl

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

The Waste Land

16 / 20

"The Waste Land" is a famous poem by T.S. Eliot. What is the next line of this poem after "April is the cruellest month"?

Mixing memory and desire,

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

Unreal city,

A heap of broken images,

17 / 20

"I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you."

- What is the title of this poem?

Song of Myself

Leaves of Grass

The Waste Land

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

18 / 20

"Because I could not stop for Death,

He kindly stopped for me;

The carriage held but just ourselves,

And Immortality."

- What is the title of this poem?

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Ode to a Nightingale

Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

Because I could not stop for Death

19 / 20

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by,"

- What is the next line of this poem by Robert Frost?

And that has made all the difference.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,

Whose woods these are I think I know.

I met a traveler from an antique land

20 / 20

"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate:"

- What is the next line of this sonnet?

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer's lease hath all too short a date:

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

But thy eternal summer shall not fade

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Forms Of Poetry: 20 Multiple-Choice Questions

1 / 20

Which of the following poetic forms is characterized by a poem with three stanzas of three lines each, followed by a single four-line stanza, with a specific rhyme scheme and syllable count?

Terza rima

Triolet

Renga

Rondeau

2 / 20

Which of the following poetic forms is characterized by three stanzas of three lines each and a final quatrain?

Villanelle

Sestina

Terza rima

Rondeau

3 / 20

What is the name of the poetic form consisting of a six-line stanza, with a rhyme scheme of A-A-B-B-C-C and a syllable count of 8-8-5-5-8-8?

Villanelle

Rondeau

estina

Canzone

4 / 20

Which of the following poetic forms is characterized by three-line stanzas, with a syllable count of 5-7-5 and a seasonal reference?

Haiku

Tanka

Renga

Villanelle

5 / 20

Which of the following poetic forms is characterized by six sestets and a final tercet, with a complex pattern of repeating end words?

Sestina

Rondeau

Villanelle

Ghazal

6 / 20

What is the name of the poetic form that uses the repetition of a single word or phrase at the end of each line, and can be as short as three lines or as long as multiple stanzas?

Sestina

Ghazal

Refrain

Elegy

7 / 20

What is the name of the poetic form in which each line contains the same number of syllables?

Sonnet

Haiku

Tanka

Syllabic verse

8 / 20

What is the name of the poetic form in which the first letter of each line spells out a word or phrase?

Elegy

Acrostic

Ode

Villanelle

9 / 20

What is the name of the poetic form that originated in ancient Arabic poetry, consisting of rhyming couplets and a refrain, typically used to express love or melancholy?

Ghazal

Rondeau

Sestina

Villanelle

10 / 20

Which of the following poetic forms is characterized by a poem that tells a story through a series of quatrains, with a rhyme scheme of ABAB?

Ballad

Villanelle

Rondeau

Pantoum

11 / 20

Which of the following poetic forms consists of a series of six-line stanzas, with a specific rhyme scheme and the repetition of certain end words throughout the poem?

Rondeau

Sestina

Villanelle

Renga

12 / 20

Which of the following poetic forms originated in Italy?

Villanelle

Rondeau

Pantoum

Sonnet

13 / 20

Which of the following poetic forms consists of a three-line stanza, with a syllable count of 5-7-5, but also includes a two-line stanza at the end, with a syllable count of 7-7?

Rondeau

Tanka

Ghazal

Villanelle

14 / 20

What is the name of the poetic form consisting of a series of unrhymed tercets followed by a quatrain, with the same end words used throughout the poem in a specific pattern?

Terza rima

Villanelle

Sestina

Rondeau

15 / 20

What is the name of the poetic form consisting of four-line stanzas, with a rhyme scheme of ABAB, typically used to express love or praise?

Rondeau

Pantoum

Ballade

Villanelle

16 / 20

What is the name for a poetic form consisting of 14 lines with a specific rhyme scheme and meter?

Villanelle

Sonnet

Haiku

Ghazal

17 / 20

What is the name of the poetic form in which the poem's shape on the page reflects its subject matter?

Concrete poetry

Cento

Ghazal

Cinquain

18 / 20

Which of the following poetic forms is characterized by alternating lines of iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter, with a rhyme scheme of A-B-A-B?

Rondeau

Ballad

Triolet

Poulter's measure

19 / 20

What is the name of the poetic form in which each line or stanza repeats the same sequence of words, but in reverse order?

Palindrome

Tanka

Terza rima

Ghazal

20 / 20

Which of the following is NOT a form of Japanese poetry?

Haiku

Tanka

Renga

Villanelle

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