Here is your quiz for the Powerful Words of Poetry unit. You may use your notes but not a classmate. You can email this to me at jwilkinson@wvstateu.edu when you are finished. Answer all questions in complete sentences and double check your grammer and spelling. It is due by midnite tonight.
1. Write out two alliterations
2. Who was the author of the poem The Road Not Taken?
3. Classify the phrases below as a simili or a metaphor:
a. The cat ran like the wind
b. She is as pretty as a flower
c. the even was clouded over by mobs of people
4. Compose a poem of your own. Must be a minimum of five lines.
5. Name one poet who was associated with the Romantic era.
6. Was William Shakespeare condisered a poet?
7. What is the difference between a simili and a metaphor?
8. How are similis and metaphors used in poetry?
9. How long does a poems stanza have to be?
10. Who was your favorite poet that we studied and why?
11. What are five components/parts of poetry?
12. Create a modernized version of the first stanza of Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken.
13. Just becuase I believe that a poem means something, does it mean that you have to believe that it means the same thing?
