Think you’ve got your head wrapped around Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. What's an elegy, anyway?
a poem of mourning
a poem in honor of a famous person
something you write on your tombstone
a love poem
Q. What's the rhyme scheme of the poem?
ABAB
AABB
ABCD
XYZ
Q. What's the meter of the poem?
iambic tetrameter
dactylic hexameter
trochaic trimeter
iambic pentameter
Q. What are the stanzas called?
ballad meter
quartets
heroic quatrains
octaves
Q. Which of the following lines has an example of alliteration from Gray's "Elegy"?
"The curfew tolls the knell of parting day"
"The plowman homeward plods his weary way"
"And leaves the world to darkness and to me"
"Molest her ancient solitary reign"