Jeopardy Questions—Poetry Test
Types of Poetry
1. Formal vs. Free Verse?
2. Syllables in Haiku?
3. Purpose of sonnet?
4. Rhyme scheme of limerick?
5. Narrative poem that tells of love, death, and supernatural?
6. Funeral poem?
Limericks and Lyric
1. poetry term--“A narrow wind complains all day how someone treated him”
2. T or F: “Ozymandius” follows traditional structure of sonnet
3. Titles of limericks?
4. Theme of “Love is Not All”?
5. Term and Meaning of “Light, like a latticework of branches, shining of every leaf” (Ode to En Light)
6. Term and Meaning of “Nature, like us, is sometimes caught without her diadem” (Sky is Low)
Children’s Poetry
1.Describe the diction in “Jabberwocky”
2. mood of beginning/end of “Jabberwocky”
3. poetry term—“rolling, rattling carefree circus”
4. poetry term—“far and few, far and few are the lands where the Jumblies live”
5. What did the Jumblies sail away in?
6. What is Jabberwocky from?
Free Verse
1. poetry term—radiator purring in “January”
2. “January,” “New World,” and “For My Sister Molly” are all about the speaker’s ____.
3. mood of “your voice over the wires came leaping”
4. poetry term--Hamlet in “Molly”
5. poetry term-- Grasses shimmer and shine.
6. light a metaphor for in “my sister Molly”-- “And sensed our groping after light/
And saw some extinguished/And no doubt mourned”
Narrative and Analogies
1. What path did the speaker take?
2. What is an analogy?
3. What is the figurative meaning of “The Road Not Taken”
4. Why is the timing bad for the captain’s death?
5. What is the literal vs. figurative meaning of “O Captain!”
6. “Long Black Veil” is a _____.
Poetry Terms
1. descriptive language/five senses
2. repeated phrase in a poem/forms rhythm
3. repetition of consonant sounds
4. unit of lines in poetry
5. reference to another work
6. author’s choice of words