End of Course Quiz

End of course Quiz

1.       Which of these statements is true?

a)     all good poems should rhyme

b)     most modern poems rhyme

c)     rhyme is a traditional technique used by poets

2.       Alliteration is ..

a)     when consonant sounds are repeated in a line of poetry

b)     when sounds are repeated in a line of poetry

c)     when words are repeated in a line of poetry

3.       An ABAB rhyming pattern is ..

a)     When lines 1 & 3 rhyme and lines 2 & 4 rhyme

b)     An example of a rhyming couplet

c)     When lines 2 & 4 rhyme but the rest does not

4.       Which of these statements is NOT true. A simile is ..

a)     an example of imagery used to compare something to something else

b)     a type of metaphor

c)     a technique used to describe something usually with “like” or “as”

5.       Which of these lines contain a metaphor?

a)   Wings like bits of umbrella (   Bats by D H Lawrence )

b)   Into the burning bowels of the earth ( Snake by D H Lawrence)

c)  My friends forsake me, like a memory lost  ( I am by John Clare)