Think you’ve got your head wrapped around Mac Flecknoe? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. "Mac Flecknoe" can be described best as what type of poem?
Satire
Sonnet
Lyric
Diss Song
Q. Dryden employs what sort of meter in the poem?
Anapestic Heptameter
Dactylic Hexameter
Iambic Pentameter
No meter. No rhyme. No reason.
Q. Dryden parodies which style of Classical poetry in "Mac Flecknoe"?
Tragedy
Comedy
Epic
The Greek kind.
Q. Which one of these literary devices does Dryden NOT utilize in the poem?
Irony
Hyperbole
Puns
Dullness
Q. "Mac Flecknoe" is comprised entirely of paired rhymed lines written in iambic pentameter. What is that style called?
Heroic Couplets
Stoic Puppets
Mesezoic Muppets
We give up. We're out of rhymes.