--- title: Poetry forms: haiku, limerick, kenning, acrostic, performing — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · English description: The 15 test and exam questions of lesson 47 «Poetry forms: haiku, limerick, kenning, acrostic, performing» of the English course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/47-poetry-forms-haiku-limerick-kenning-acrostic-performing/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/) / Poetry forms: haiku, limerick, kenning… # Poetry forms: haiku, limerick, kenning, acrostic, performing The 15 questions of lesson 47 «Poetry forms: haiku, limerick, kenning, acrostic, performing» of the English course of Mova's primary school with their options, 85 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/47-poetry-forms-haiku-limerick-kenning-acrostic-performing/). - [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/47-poetry-forms-haiku-limerick-kenning-acrostic-performing/t1/) — Your mate says, "Any short poem's a haiku, innit." Put him right. — wrong ✗ - [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/47-poetry-forms-haiku-limerick-kenning-acrostic-performing/t2/) — Ella writes the line "Petrol smell, cars hum". Can it open a haiku? — wrong ✗ - [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/47-poetry-forms-haiku-limerick-kenning-acrostic-performing/t3/) — Grandad, dry: "Back in my day poems rhymed, end of." The teacher shows free verse. What is true? — right ✓ - [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/47-poetry-forms-haiku-limerick-kenning-acrostic-performing/t4/) — What would happen to a limerick if line 5 did not rhyme with line 1? — wrong ✗ - [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/47-poetry-forms-haiku-limerick-kenning-acrostic-performing/t5/) — A cartoon says a kenning is "a poem about a bloke called Ken". Fix it. — wrong ✗ - [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/47-poetry-forms-haiku-limerick-kenning-acrostic-performing/t6/) — Shona in Aberdeen: "It's dreich the day, I'll dae a kenning for the rain." ("Dreich" means grey and gloomy; "the day" means today.) Which is a kenning for rain? — wrong ✗ - [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/47-poetry-forms-haiku-limerick-kenning-acrostic-performing/t7/) — Which poem is an acrostic for CAT? — wrong ✗ - [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/47-poetry-forms-haiku-limerick-kenning-acrostic-performing/t8/) — Jordan from Bristol: "I done a shape poem, proper job, it's a wave but there's only one word on it." ("Proper job" means a job well done.) What is missing? — right ✓ - [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/47-poetry-forms-haiku-limerick-kenning-acrostic-performing/t9/) — Year 1 performs "Twinkle, twinkle" with actions. Why do actions help? — right ✓ - [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/47-poetry-forms-haiku-limerick-kenning-acrostic-performing/t10/) — Which list gives a haiku, a limerick and a kenning, in that order? — wrong ✗ - [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/47-poetry-forms-haiku-limerick-kenning-acrostic-performing/t11/) — Can "The old dog sleeps by the door" be the first line of a haiku? — wrong ✗ - [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/47-poetry-forms-haiku-limerick-kenning-acrostic-performing/e1/) — Identify the poetic form, of Japanese origin, customarily composed in English schools as three lines of five, seven and five syllables respectively. — wrong ✗ · exam - [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/47-poetry-forms-haiku-limerick-kenning-acrostic-performing/e2/) — State the rhyme scheme conventionally observed in the limerick. — wrong ✗ · exam - [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/47-poetry-forms-haiku-limerick-kenning-acrostic-performing/e3/) — Select the response that most accurately characterises a kenning. — right ✓ · exam - [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/47-poetry-forms-haiku-limerick-kenning-acrostic-performing/e4/) — Determine which of the following is a defining feature of free verse. — right ✓ · exam - ← previous: [46. 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