Test Your Poetry Knowledge


  • What does the Latin phrase carpe diem mean?


  • Shakespeare's sonnets are written in Iambic Pentameter- what is Iambic Pentameter?


  • What is the rhyme scheme employed by Shakespeare in his sonnets?


  • What is the difference between a metaphor and a simile?


  • "The terms 'light' and 'dark' are examples of homonyms". True or False?


  • Milton's Paradise Lost is written in what literary style?


  • Who wrote this passage?

        'Drink to me, only, with thine eyes,
         and I will pledge with mine;
         or leave a kiss but in the cup,
         and I'll not look for wine'

     
  • The poetry of John Donne is said to be characteristic of which group of 17th Century poets?


  • What is the first line of William Blake's poem Jerusalem?


  • Give an example of alliteration.


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