Poetry
Poems are often divided into sections that are like paragraphs. These are known as _______________
verses or stanzas
What is the rhyming pattern of the following:
MY child, the Duck-billed Platypus
A sad example sets for us:
From him we learn how Indecision
Of character provokes Derision.
AABB
The poem The Platypus pokes fun at the confusion of:
A. the platypus, the reader and scientists
B. poets, politicians and priests
C. the animal kingdom, zoo keepers and animal lovers
D. country folk, city dwellers and suburbanites
A. the platypus, the reader and scientists
A name that baffles, frights and shocks us
What does baffles mean?
confuses, perplexes, confounds
Which poetic technique uses the structure that something is like or as something else?
simile
When the last syllables of consecutive lines sound the same, they are said to what?
A. alliterate
B. rhyme
C. juxtapose
D. assimilate
B. rhyme
What is the missing word:
The scientists were sorely ______
To classify him; so perplexed
vexed
When something is funny, it is __________________
humorous or comedic
What is indecision?
A. a stomach complaint
B. a literary technique
C. part of a chapter
D. inability to make a choice
D. inability to make a choice
When poems ________________ they are more memorable.
rhyme
Poems set to music are known as ______________.
Songs
True or false: The rhyming paragraph of the following is ABAB?
Their brains, that they, with Rage at bay,
Called him a horrid name one day,--
A name that baffles, frights and shocks us,
Ornithorhynchus Paradoxus.
False. It is AABB.
Which technique is used in line 7:
"Fish, Flesh, or Fowl".
Alliteration
Is derision a positive or negative reaction?
negative
What is the name of the poetic technique where words sound like the sound they make?
onomatopoeia
True or false: All poems rhyme.
False
Which word in the poem "The Platypus" means feeling completely confused, puzzled, or unsure because something is too difficult to understand or make sense of.
perplexed
The running on of one line of poetry to the next.
enjambment
Keeping rage at bay means:
A. to hold your position in a race
B. to find your starting position in a boat race
C. to pause before reacting
D. to stick to a strict diet
C. to pause before reacting
What is the best definition of hyperbole?
A. negativity
B. contrast
C. exaggeration
D. comparison
C. exaggeration
Poems that do not rhyme are known as:
A. closed poetry
B. free verse
C. articulated text
D. defined stanzas
B. free verse
The Platypus moves in tone between which two literary styles:
A. science fiction and love story
B. nursery ryhme and scientific scandal
C. road trip and musical
D. detective fiction and coming of age story
B. nursery ryhme and scientific scandal
Giving an animal qualities that are uniquely human.
Anthropomorphism
The platypus is a monotreme, which means it has ______ covering its skin (like a mammal), but also lays ________ (like a bird).
fur, eggs
The poet who wrote The Platypus is ____________ Herfor.
Oliver