STUDY GUIDE FOR POETRY UNIT TEST
- Choose the correct literary term for the following definitions.
Alliterationallusionassonanceconsonancecouplet
Free versehyperboleimageryirony metaphor
Meteronomatopoeiapersonificationsimile
1. a two-line stanza, usually with end rhymes the same.
2. poetry which is not written in a traditional meter or rhyme.
3. the repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds, normally at the beginnings of words.
4. a reference in a work of literature to something outside the work, especially to a well-known historical or literary event, person, or work.
5. a deliberate gross exaggeration.
6. An attitude or intention that is opposition of what is actually meant (sarcasm is an example of this).
7. the repetition of a regular rhythmic unit in a line of poetry. Each unit of this is known as a foot.
8. gives inanimate objects or ideas the characteristics of a human being.
9. use of words whose sound suggests their meaning (buzz, hiss, honk)
10. a figure of speech in which a comparison is expressed without the use of “like” or “as.”
11. The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds. “A weight gain is sometimes a pain before the weight goes away.” (the repetition of the long a in gain, pain, weight, and away.)
12. The repetition of similar consonant sounds in a group of words. The terms usually refers to words in which the ending consonants are the same but the vowels that precede them are different. Example beat and sit or bill and wall.
13. the picture that an author or poet paints with words that helps the readers understand the poem by appealing to the senses (sight, touch, hearing, smell, taste).
14. a figure of speech comparing two objects, usually with “like” or “as.”
- Match the following terms with their correct definitions.
Quatrain refrain rhyme sonnet stanza Style symbol theme ballad epic poem haiku lyric Extended metaphor narrative poem
15. the thought expressed by a work of literature. An idea about life that the author wants to convey in his work.
16. the mode of expression in language; the characteristics in which an author writes that makes his writing different from others’.
17. Usually a fourteen-line iambic pentameter poem (3 quatrains and a couplet). Shakespeare is known for writing hundreds of these poems.
18.A metaphor that goes several lines or possible the entire length of a work (as in “The Spider and the Fly” or “A Poem is a Little Path”)
19. a group of words forming a phrase or sentence(one or more lines) that is repeated at intervals in a poem (usually at the end of a stanza.)
20. a four-line stanza with any combination of rhymes.
21. words, usually at the end of lines, of poetry that make the same sounds.
22. usually a repeated grouping of three or more lines with the same meter and rhyme scheme. Prose is divided into paragraphs and chapters; poetry is divided into ______.
23. something that may represent an idea, person, place, or thing beyond itself (for instance, a dove represents peace, and darkness may represent despair and loneliness.
24. short poem that expresses the speaker’s thoughts and feelings. It does not tell a story (may or may not be put to music).
25. A longer poem that is sung that tells a story.
26. a long poem that tells a story and chronicles the adventures of a hero. (examples: The Odyssey and The Illiad.
27. A Japanese poem with that lines that includes 17 syllables (1st and 3rd lines have 5 syllables, and the 2nd line has 7 syllables).
- Write the word represented by each letter in TP-CASTT—
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IV. The following questions will refer to one of the words you have written above (TP-CASTT)
1.. In which step do you identify the figurative language in the poem (similes, metaphors, personification, etc.)?
2. Which one represents the tone (the author’s feeling about the subject of the poem)?
3 This identifies the change in the time, tone, or speaker of a poem.
4 This is what the poet is trying to say about life.
5 This is the 1st and 6th step in the process in which you predict what the poem is going to be about and then later go back and see if your prediction is confirmed (correct) or not.
6. In this step, you put the poem in your own words.
V. Answer the following questions .
1. What does it mean to explicate a poem? ( Analyze it, read it silently, read it aloud, or memorizer it)
. 2. Is the poet the narrator of the poem and the speaker the author, or is the speaker in the poem the narrator and the author the poet?
3. What is rhythm?
VI Know the terms from the test on poetic devices, especially meter, foot, line, stanza, rhyme scheme, narrative poem, metaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole, allusion, and idiom
VII. BE ABLE TO IDENTIFY THE RHYME SCHEME IN A POEM.