Poetry Final Lesson

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 4

Poetry 

Quiz

20 questions about:

Poetry, themes, tone,

stylistic devices

Prize?

Eternal glory and chocolate 

Sonnet 116

1. What is the main theme of this poem?

1. love sickness
2. eternal love
3. revenge
4. fleeting nature of love

2. Love [...] it is the star to every wand'ring bark

1. simile
2. repetition
3. metaphor
4. alliteration

3. But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

1. alliteration
2. assonance
3. simile

4. What do we call the final two lines?

1. kenning
2. couplet
3. thesis statement
4. assonance

5. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds

1. simile
2. rhyme
3. repetition

Sonnet 147

1. What is the main theme of this poem?

1. the eternal nature of love
2. the obsessive and unhealthy power of love
3. the fleeting nature of love
4. revenge

2. "My love is as a fever"

1. metaphor
2. simile
3. alliteration
4. personification

3. "My reason, the physician to my love"

1. metaphor
2. simile
3. alliteration

4. "Desire is death"

1. metaphor
2. simile
3. alliteration
4. personification

5. "For I have sworn thee fair and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night"

1. metaphor
2. simile
3. alliteration
4. personification

Annabel Lee

Stanza 1

Stanza 2

Stanza 3

Stanza 4

Stanza 5

Stanza 6

1. What is one of the main themes of this poem?

1. the grief of losing a loved one
2. the revenge of a loved one
3. eternal power of love
4. the importance of family

2. What is the tone? "It was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea"

1. optimistic
2. light
3. melancholic
4. critical

3. "Nor the demons down under the sea..."

1. alliteration
2. simile
3. personification

4. "... can ever dissever..."

1. alliteration
2. assonance
3. simile

5. "... my soul from the soul of the beautiful Annabel Lee"

1. simile
2. alliteration
3. repetition
4. metaphor

6. "That the wind came out of the cloud by night chilling and killing my Annabel Lee."

1. personification
2. simile
3. metaphor

7. "That the wind came out of the cloud by night chilling and killing my Annabel Lee."

1. metaphor
2. assonance
3. simile

8. Of my darling - my darling - my wife and my bride

1. assonance
2. repetition
3. simile
4. alliteration

9. "And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by her side"

1. assonance
2. metaphor
3. alliteration
4. simile

10. "In her tomb by the sounding sea."

1. simile
2. assonance
3. alliteration

Creative writing

Watch the scene. In groups discuss how the scene develops/ends. 

Write a short script.