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, ___."
Difficulty: Easy- Nothing more
- Nevermore
- Evermore
- Forevermore
This Irish poet wrote "The Second Coming," warning that "the centre cannot hold" and anticipating apocalyptic change.
Difficulty: Medium- W.B. Yeats
- Seamus Heaney
- Oscar Wilde
- James Joyce
This 16th-century sonnet sequence, first in English, features "Astrophil and Stella" pursuing unrequited love across 108 sonnets.
Difficulty: Hard- Philip Sidney
- Edmund Spenser
- Samuel Daniel
- Michael Drayton
This English playwright and poet wrote "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" in one of his 154 sonnets.
Difficulty: Easy- John Milton
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Lord Byron
- William Shakespeare
This metrical foot, the reverse of an iamb, places stress first then unstress (DUM-da), as in "GAR-den" or "TI-ger."
Difficulty: Medium- Spondee
- Dactyl
- Trochee
- Anapest
This device uses the last word of a clause as the first of the next, creating linked chains of thought.
Difficulty: Hard- Epanalepsis
- Epistrophe
- Anadiplosis
- Symploce
This children's poem features a girl whose lamb followed her to school one day, which was against the rules.
Difficulty: Easy- Mary Had a Little Lamb
- Little Bo Peep
- Baa Baa Black Sheep
- Old MacDonald
This narrative poem form, originally sung, tells a dramatic story in quatrains, often with a refrain, like "Barbara Allen."
Difficulty: Medium- Ode
- Ballad
- Epic
- Lay
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