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Poetry Unit Quiz 2
Part 1: Matching: Match the terms of the right to their description on the left. Terms will
be used more than once.
1. _____ has 14 lines.
2. _____ has a Japanese name.
3. _____ made of all rhyming couplets.
4. _____ Two line that rhyme at the end.
5. _____ a poem to honor the dead.
6. _____ has 10 syllables per line.
7. _____ has no rhyme scheme.
8. _____ ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG
9. _____ Written in first person.
10. _____ AABB, CCDD, EEFF, GG

A. Sonnet
B. Elegy
C. Rhyming couplet
D. Haiku

Part 2: Short answer. Please read the prompts and answer each question with a short
written response. Make sure that you read and respond to each question. This section is
worth 10 points.
An octopus went off
to war. Its a good thing that
he was well-armed.
11. What kind of poem is this? ______________________________________________
Name three things that show it is this kind of poem:
a.
b.
c.

12.
Shall I compare thee to a summers day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summers lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or natures changing course, untrimmed;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owst,
Nor shall death brag thou wandrest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to Time thou growst.
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
12.

What kind of poem is this? ______________________________________________

Name three things that show it is this kind of poem:

a.
b.
c.

Oh! You dear sweet little puppy, gone to soon from this bitter place!
You barely had time to wipe the smile off your face,
Before your life was snuffed out by a lonely semi truck,
Now Im peeling your body of the pavement . . . Yuck!

Nonetheless, dear puppy, I loved you a lot.

You always obeyed and peed in the right spot.
We cuddled on cold mornings in my bed,
I wonder if awe at the perfect life you had led!

Now it has been several years since then,

And I actually have another pit bull named Glen.
But dont worry puppy you arent replaced.
I got him to remind me of your adorable face.
R.I.P Chica
13.

What kind of poem is this? ______________________________________________

Name three things that show it is this kind of poem:

a.
b.
c.
14. Who came up with the haiku?
15. Who is most famous for the sonnet?
16. Which poem has been most difficult for you to write so far?