1. What is the meaning of "apheresis"? The deliberate use of an old fashioned term The ironic use of a word An important truth or principle A letter or syllable omitted at the beginning of a word

2. What character would you expect to find in a bucolic poem? A princess A king A fairy queen A shepherdess

3. What is the term for a rhythmic break inside a line of verse? Cadence Caesura Cento Canto

4. Which of the following would be most suitable at a funeral? Didactic poem Doggerel Ditty Dirge

5. Staying with the funeral theme, which of the following would be most appropriate for a tomb stone inscription? Epigram Epithet Epitaph Epic

6. Which of the following is an (are) element(s) of figurative language? Hyperbole Simile Metaphor All of these

7. In poetic terms, what is a gnome? Pun Aphorism Monody Tercet

8. An easy one: what is the name for a Japanese poem consisting of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables? Haiku Hamaguri Hakusai Hotategai

9. Baudelaire and Rimbaud are representatives of which poetic movement? Iconism Importism Iconoclastism Impressionism

10. A jongleur was a medieval entertainer who recited or sang poetry. True False

11. Which of these is a type of poem? Kyrielle Kurchatorium Kirmess Kerygma

12. What is the term for a humorous five-liner that might start: "There was a young man in Bombay..."? Answer: (One Word, named after a city in Ireland)

13. In Greek mythology, the Muses were the daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne. Each of them was identified with a specific art or science. There were three for different kinds of poetry alone, but how many were there altogether? 7 11 5 9

14. Lewis Carrol's "Jabberwocky" is an example of what? Nonsense poetry Nonaligned poetry Nonconformist poetry Nonpareil poetry

15. What is the term for a lyrical poem on a specific subject - it could be an object, an emotion or a famous person? Answer: (One Word, three letters)

16. Where would you find the famous Poet's Corner? The Louvre Westminster Abbey St. Basilicus Cathedral The Vatican

17. A quatrain has four lines, a quintain has five. How many lines does a quatorzain have? 4 40 14 24

18. What is the name for a poem where every line has one more syllable than the previous one? Rhapsody Rhetoric verse Rhopalic verse Rhyme scheme

19. What is a scop? The range of a poet's art A poetry database A poem that is written in a certain shape An Old English term for poet

20. Which of the following means a poem or song to greet the dawn? Telestich Terza rima Tagalied Tanka

21. What is the meaning of meiosis in poetry? Understatement Underplot Undercurrent Underestimate

22. Which of the following is not a synonym for versifier? Poetaster Rhymester Poeticule Bard

23. Which of these is a poem by Rudyard Kipling? The White Cloud The White Man's Burden The White Lies The White Woolly Sheep

24. What is the name of the imaginary country in Sam Taylor Coleridge's poem "Kubla Khan"? Answer: (One Word)

25. Finally here is a double-barreled question for the last two letters of the alphabet: Which poet is correctly matched with his birthplace? Yeats - Zurich Yakamochi - Zama Ybarra - Zagreb Yevtushenko - Zima