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Poetry Presentations
Quiz | First Hour
1. In Sylvia Plaths poem Mushrooms, within what environment does the poems imagery show the mushrooms growing? a.) Graveyards and city sidewalks b.) Riverbanks and swamps c.) Forest floors and city sidewalks d.) Forrest floors and poorly run businesses 2. In William Carlos Williamss poem The Red Wheelbarrow, what literary device does Williams use? a.) Imagery b.) Personification c.) Repetition d.) Alliteration 3. What is the main idea or point of Carl Sandburgs poem Chicago? a.) Chicago is known for its starvation and violence b.) All cities should be defined by their negative aspects c.) Even with its negative aspects, Chicago is a great city d.) Everything about Chicago is wonderful 4. What literary device(s) is/are used in Robert Frosts Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening? a.) Imagery b.) Symbolism c.) Both A and B d.) Neither A or B 5. In Countee Cullens poem Incident, when does the incident take place? a.) A long time ago, when the narrator was eight b.) In the present c.) In the future d.) In the very recent past, when the narrator was 20 6. One Art by Elizabeth Bishop is a villanelle. Whats a villanelle? a.) Another name for a sonnet b.) A poem that doesnt rhyme c.) A poem with nineteen lines and two repeating rhymes d.) A poem with 8 stanzas, the first four with 3 lines and the last four with 4 lines 7. What literary device is used in Langston Hughess poem The Negro Speaks of Rivers? a.) Repetition b.) Anaphora c.) Paradox

d.) Alliteration 8. Why does e.e. cummings only use lower case letters in his poem in just-? a.) He couldnt be bothered to capitalize his letters b.) He thought capital letters looked ugly c.) His greatest role model suggested that he stop using capital letters d.) He wanted people to look at his poem as well as read it 9. In Langston Hughess The Weary Blues, why is the rhythm of the poem important? a.) When read aloud, the poem sounds like a song b.) It makes the words easier to understand c.) Hughes was copying the rhythm in other famous poems d.) The rhythm does not matter 10. In Sylvia Plaths poem Tulips, how does the speaker feel about the tulips in her room? a.) She thinks theyre cheerful and they make her happy b.) The tulips remind her of her old lover c.) She hates the tulips and believe they are torturing her d.) She doesnt care about the tulips in the room 11. Why did Robert Frost choose to write his poem Birches in free verse? a.) It allowed him to think more freely b.) He was too lazy to create a rhyme scheme c.) It provided him with good practice for other poems d.) He thought haikus were too short 12. Sylvia Plaths poem Mirror uses personification. What is personification? a.) When a person imitates another person b.) When something nonhuman is given human characteristics c.) When two people look, talk, and act alike by coincidence d.) When a writer compares two unlike people with one another 13. In Mending Wall by Robert Frost, what keeps getting destroyed? a.) A famers garden b.) A wall that divides two neighbors properties c.) A bedroom wall in a house d.) A metaphorical barrier that two friends create between each other 14. In the poem Nothing Gold can Stay, what does Robert Frost make an allusion to? a.) Shakespeares famous play Hamlet b.) Noahs Ark (the Bible) c.) Another poem Frost had written previously d.) The Garden of Eden (the Bible) 15. In the poem if everything happens that cant be done, what object does e.e. cummings frequently reference and analyze? a.) Chairs b.) Flowers c.) Books

d.) Dogs