English Poetry Trivia Questions
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This repeated phrase completes the line from Edgar Allan Poe's famous poem about a dark bird - "Quoth the Raven, ___."
- Nothing more
- Nevermore
- Evermore
- Forevermore
This English playwright and poet wrote "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" in one of his 154 sonnets.
- John Milton
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Lord Byron
- William Shakespeare
This children's poem features a girl whose lamb followed her to school one day, which was against the rules.
- Mary Had a Little Lamb
- Little Bo Peep
- Baa Baa Black Sheep
- Old MacDonald
This poet wrote "The Road Not Taken," which describes choosing between two paths in a yellow wood.
- Walt Whitman
- Emily Dickinson
- Robert Frost
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
This type of Japanese poem has exactly 17 syllables arranged in three lines of 5-7-5.
- Limerick
- Haiku
- Sonnet
- Ballad
This nursery rhyme features a spider that frightened a girl eating curds and whey.
- Little Miss Muffet
- Little Bo Peep
- Mary Mary Quite Contrary
- Georgie Porgie
This American poet wrote "I celebrate myself, and sing myself" to open his famous work "Song of Myself."
- Robert Frost
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Walt Whitman
- Carl Sandburg
This term describes words that imitate sounds, like "buzz," "hiss," or "splash" in poetry.
- Alliteration
- Onomatopoeia
- Metaphor
- Simile
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