Quiz  /  A Study of Poetry Quiz

  • 1. 
    What is the longest Old English poem?

  • Layamon
  • Songs of Innocence
  • Spoon River Anthology
  • Beowulf

  • 2. 
    Who is the author of "Ozymandias"?

  • William Wordsworth
  • John Keats
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Mary Shelley

  • 3. 
    How many lines does a sonnet have?

  • 12
  • 16
  • 18
  • 14

  • 4. 
    What are the first eight lines of a sonnet called?

  • octopus
  • octane
  • octave
  • octet

  • 5. 
    Who wrote a famed poem about the Crimean War?

  • Oscar Wilde
  • Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Alfred E. Neuman
  • Alfred Douglas

  • 6. 
    In poetry, the word "foot" refers to:

  • a dozen poems
  • a unit of 12 lines
  • one stanza
  • two or more syllables

  • 7. 
    A poem in which the first letters of each line spell a word is called:

  • an ode
  • a sestina
  • an acrostic
  • a haiku

  • 8. 
    Which of these poets did not use capital letters in his works?

  • John Donne
  • E.E. Cummings
  • William Shakespeare
  • Robert Browning
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