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The Poetry Quiz Facts
Average Score for this quiz:
45%
No of times this quiz has been taken:
35
No of people passing this quiz:
19
No of people failing this quiz:
16
Maximum score for this quiz:
92%
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: Poetry is the language of the heart and soul, the lovers' language, and words as music. Can you speak these languages?
1.
Which of the following is not a literary device used for aesthetic effect in poetry?
a.
Assonance
b.
Onomatopaea
c.
Rhyme
d.
Grammar
2.
True or false: Writing predates poetry.
a.
True
b.
False
3.
What is the earliest surviving European poem?
a.
The Homeric epic
b.
The Gilgamesh epic
c.
The Deluge epic
d.
The Hesiodic ode
4.
Which of the following is not a poetic tradition?
a.
The Epic
b.
The Comic
c.
The Occult
d.
The Tragic
5.
What is the study of poetry's meter and form called?
a.
Prosody
b.
Potology
c.
Rheumatology
d.
Scansion
6.
Shakespeare composed much of his plays in what sort of verse?
a.
Alliterative verse
b.
Sonnet form
c.
Iambic pentameter
d.
Dactylic hexameter
7.
Which poet invented the concept of the variable foot in poetry?
a.
William Carlos Williams
b.
Emily Dickinson
c.
Gerard Manly Hopkins
d.
Robert Frost
8.
Who wrote this famous line: 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day/ Thou art more lovely and more temperate…'
a.
TS Eliot
b.
Lord Tennyson
c.
Charlotte Bronte
d.
Shakespeare
9.
From what century does the poetic form the folk ballad date?
a.
The 12th
b.
The 14th
c.
The 17th
d.
The 19th
10.
From which of Shakespeare's plays is this famous line: 'Did my heart love til now?/ Forswear it, sight/ For I never saw a true beauty until this night'
a.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
b.
Hamlet
c.
Othello
d.
Romeo and Juliet
11.
What is a poem called whose first letters of each line spell out a word?
a.
Alliterative
b.
Epic
c.
Acrostic
d.
Haiku
12.
Auld Lang Syne is a famous poem by whom?
a.
Sir Walter Scott
b.
William Butler Yeats
c.
Henry Longfellow
d.
Robert Burns
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