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POETRY TEST

1. How many lines are in a haiku?___________________________________________(1 pt)

2. How many total syllables are there in haiku?________________________________(1 pt)

3. What could we add to make this 5 syllables:

Rain showers in ___________________________(1pt)

 April
 May
 September
 July

4. Which line(s) have 7 syllables? (1 pt)

 My bunny is named June
 What is your favorite color
 I love giraffes and rabbits
 How many apples on the tree

5. Which one is a haiku? (1pt)

a. What is a haiku?

b. Green trees are pretty

They help the environment
do you like green trees?

c. I love my cat
Her name is Serenity
She loves to cuddle

d. Space is very cool

It has a lot of planets
Earth is my very favorite
 6. “There once was a young man from Ealing,
Who always would hang from the ceiling.
He couldn’t wear a hat,
But could hang like a bat,
And said, “What a wonderful feeling!”

This is an example of:____________________________________________________(1 point)

7. Write down 3 key features of limerick:

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points)

8. Which choice is a Limerick Poem? (1 point)

i. There was an Old Man of Nantucket

Who kept all his cash in a bucket.
His daughter, called Nan,
Ran away with a man,
And as for the bucket, Nantucket.

ii. That at the last, and in short time, I spide,

Under a rocke, where she alas, opprest,
Fell to the ground, and there untimely dide.
Cruell death vanquishing so noble beautie
Oft makes me wayle so hard a desire.

iii. Light do I see within my Lady’s eyes

And loving spirits in its plenisphere
Which bear in strange delight on my
heart’s care
Till Joy’s awakened from that sepulchre.
Jabberwocky

‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son

The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand;

Long time the manxome foe he sought—
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,

The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through

The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

"And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?

Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
He chortled in his joy.

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

9. Find 3 words in the poem that you suspect are not proper English. Do you know what they mean in
standard English? (3 points)
a. ________________________________________________

b._________________________________________________

c._________________________________________________
10. Describe what you think the poem is about in four sentences or less.
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11. What is the best description of Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky"? (1 point)

a. a nonsense poem
b. an adventure story
c. an ironic criticism
d. a sentimental ballad

12. Did the hero kill the Jabberwock? Explain your answer using information from the poem.

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 13. How many lines are there in the sonnet?_________________________________(1 point)

14. What are sonnets mostly about?_________________________________(1 point)

15. Who wrote this sonnet? _______________________________________(1 point)

“My love is as a fever, longing still

For that which longer nurseth the disease,
Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill,
Th’ uncertain sickly appetite to please.
My reason, the physician to my love,
Angry that his prescriptions are not kept,
Hath left me, and I desperate now approve
Desire is death, which physic did except.
Past cure I am, now reason is past care,
And frantic-mad with evermore unrest;
My thoughts and my discourse as madmen’s are,
At random from the truth vainly expressed:
    For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,
    Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.”

16. How does the poet describe love in this sonnet? Support your answer with evidence from the
poem
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(3 points)

17. What are the key features of Shakespearean sonnet?

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(4 points)