Quizzes

Fill-in and paragraph quizzes for each chapter of the poetry unit, review quizzes, and multiple-choice quizzes on single poems. Each quiz links to the lesson plans it goes with.

Fill-in quizzes

Short-answer questions on the terms in each chapter of Perrine's Literature.

Fill-in Quiz: What Is Poetry?

Short-answer questions on Perrine's chapter "What Is Poetry?"

Poetry Quiz

Fill-in Quiz: Denotation and Connotation

Short-answer questions on the parts of a word, denotation, and connotation.

Poetry Quiz Diction

Fill-in Quiz: Imagery

Short-answer questions on imagery and its kinds.

Poetry Quiz Imagery

Fill-in Quiz: Figurative Language 1

Short-answer questions on simile, metaphor, personification, apostrophe, and metonymy.

Poetry Quiz Figurative language

Fill-in Quiz: Figurative Language 2

Short-answer questions on symbol and allegory.

Poetry Quiz Figurative language

Fill-in Quiz: Figurative Language 3

Short-answer questions on paradox, overstatement, understatement, and irony.

Poetry Quiz Figurative language Irony

Fill-in Quiz: Musical Devices

Short-answer questions on alliteration, assonance, consonance, and rime.

Poetry Quiz Sound devices

Fill-in Quiz: Rhythm and Meter

Short-answer questions on rhythm, meter, feet, and scansion.

Poetry Quiz Meter Scansion

Paragraph quizzes

One paragraph that explains the main idea of a chapter.

Paragraph Quiz: What Is Poetry?

A paragraph that summarizes Perrine's theory of poetry.

Poetry Quiz

Paragraph Quiz: Denotation and Connotation

A paragraph that explains the difference between denotation and connotation.

Poetry Quiz Diction

Paragraph Quiz: Imagery

A paragraph on the central imagery of Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays."

Poetry Quiz Imagery Robert Hayden

Paragraph Quiz: Figurative Language 1

Define and give examples of five kinds of figurative language.

Poetry Quiz Figurative language

Paragraph Quiz: Figurative Language 2

Explain symbol and how it differs from allegory.

Poetry Quiz Figurative language

Paragraph Quiz: Figurative Language 3

Define irony and explain its three kinds.

Poetry Quiz Figurative language Irony

Review quizzes

Fill-in reviews that cover several chapters, and a quiz on figures of speech.

Review Quiz: Chapters 1-3

A fill-in review of Perrine's first three chapters: what poetry is, reading the poem, and denotation and connotation.

Poetry Quiz

Review Quiz: Chapters 4-8

A fill-in review of imagery, figurative language, and allusion.

Poetry Quiz Imagery Figurative language Allusion

Quiz: Figures of Speech

Identify the figure of speech in each quoted line.

Poetry Quiz Figurative language

Poem quizzes

AP-style multiple-choice questions on one poem.

Quiz: "To Autumn"

Multiple-choice questions on Keats's "To Autumn."

Poetry Quiz John Keats AP exam Imagery

Quiz: "Ulysses"

Multiple-choice questions on Tennyson's "Ulysses."

Poetry Quiz Tennyson AP exam