11th Grade Poetry Quizzes, Questions & Answers
Recent Poetry Quizzes
This is our second quiz on the Old English period.
Questions: 10 | Attempts: 395 | Last updated: Mar 20, 2025
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Sample QuestionIn the Wanderer 'Wyrd' is a Christian term, meaning 'fate.'
Known all around the world for being arguably the world’s greatest playwright, it’s easy to forget that William Shakespeare was also a seasoned poet. What can you tell us about his work? Let’s find out!
Questions: 50 | Attempts: 2154 | Last updated: Mar 22, 2025
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Sample QuestionIn which of the following decades were Shakespeare’s sonnets written?
Explore themes of death and loss in Emily Dickinson's poetry through this focused quiz. Assess understanding of literary devices, Dickinson's personal views on immortality, and her emotional responses to loss, enhancing critical...
Questions: 8 | Attempts: 236 | Last updated: Mar 18, 2025
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Sample QuestionWhat does befell mean?
Explore the world of Shakespeare's Sonnets with this interactive quiz. Test your knowledge on the birth of Shakespeare, his career, and deep dive into the themes and emotions expressed in selected sonnets. Ideal for students and...
Questions: 13 | Attempts: 1505 | Last updated: Feb 5, 2025
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Sample QuestionWhat day was William Shakespeare born?
Take this short quiz to test your understanding of Cullen's poetry. Take a screenshot of your score report to submit on the next page!
Questions: 5 | Attempts: 2373 | Last updated: Mar 21, 2025
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Sample QuestionIn "From the Dark Tower," what does Cullen imply about the job situation during the 1920s for blacks as compared with whites?
Read each of these passages from "Song of Myself." Then determine which statement comes closest to the attitude or world view that Whitman expresses in the passage. Take a screenshot of your score report to...
Questions: 5 | Attempts: 2369 | Last updated: Mar 20, 2025
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Sample QuestionI loaf and invite my soul. I lean and loaf at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.
As you can see, it's an English Poetry quiz and most writers use their social context, life experiences, and gender in their work and this is no different from what we can see from the poems written by Emily Dickson and Walt...
Questions: 31 | Attempts: 2141 | Last updated: Mar 21, 2025
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Sample QuestionThe "hangover" feeling to Dickinson's "I felt a Funeral, in my brain" is suggested in part by an image which says she feels "As all the Heavens were a Bell" and her being but an:
This is for secondary level or tertiary level test questions.
Questions: 5 | Attempts: 2131 | Last updated: Jun 3, 2025
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Sample QuestionThe Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde promotes what virtue?
Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.
Not one of all the purple host
Who took the flag to-day
Can...
Questions: 11 | Attempts: 1064 | Last updated: Mar 21, 2025
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Sample QuestionThe alliteration of the first stanza serves to
You may use your notes for this quiz. You may not consult with others about the quiz.
Questions: 16 | Attempts: 1127 | Last updated: Jun 3, 2025
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Sample QuestionThe claim is made that a poem cannot simply be summed up in a paraphrase because the meaning of the poem is communicated through its use of language, through things like rhythm, imagery, and allusion.
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