1. What does all poetry consist of?

a.Rhyme
b.Rhythm
c.Lines
d.Alliteration
e.All of the above

2. What form were Shakespeare's plays mostly written in?

a.Sonnets
b.Acts
c.Iambic Pentameter
d.a and b
e.b and c

3. "How now brown cow" is an example of ...

a.Alliteration
b.Onomatopoeia
c.Assonance
d.Homophones
e.None of the above

4. A Shakespearean sonnet consists of how many lines?

a.10
b.12
c.14
d.16
e.18

5. A haiku is usually made of ...

a.2 lines, short and long
b.3 lines, long, short, long
c.3 lines, all equal in length
d.4 lines, short, long, short, long
e.3 lines, short, long, short

6. Which poet or composer lived the longest time ago?

a.Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)
b.Homer (Iliad and Odyssey)
c.Shel Silverstein
d.Robert Frost
e.Catullus (Roman love poems)

7. The rhythmic stress or accent put on syllables of a word is called ...

a.meter
b.foot
c.emphasis
d.rhyme
e.articulation

8. All of these are forms a stanza can take except ...

a.Couplet
b.Quintet
c.Ottava rima
d.Verse
e.Spenserian

9. Who is the 1999 Poet Laureate of the US?

a.Robert Frost
b.Robert Pinsky
c.Shel Silverstein
d.William Butler Yeats
e.Rita Dove

10. The third stanza (verse) in Promise's poem We used to contains which word?

a.wake
b.birds
c.reflections
d.ever
e.happened