BULLETIN: Poetry Test Review Guide

Students, you can expect the following on the Poetry Unit Test:

General Test Information

-85 possible questions (Poetry Terms, studied poems, and additional poems)
-Questions will be multiple choice and matching
-There will be critical thinking questions (subjective type)

Additional Test Information Notes

-The test will focus on the skills objectives that were covered during our unit study.
-The test will be used to measure your knowledge of those objectives and skills.
-The test will place emphasis on your ability to not only distinguish the correct response, but also the best response.
-Each test item will relate to a specific skill and competency.

Specific Test Information

-Questions 1-40: Poetry Terminology
-Questions 41-85: Poetry Interpretation/Analysis

Poems that will appear on the test:

'Poetry' by Pablo Neruda
'Meeting at Night' by Robert Browning
'SLAM, DUNK, HOOK' by Yusef Komunyakaa
'I Want to Die in My Own Bed' by Yehuda Amichai
One sonnet
Two Haikus
One poem by a Harlem Rennaisance poet

SAMPLE QUESTIONS:

*NOTE: THESE QUESTIONS WILL NOT APPEAR ON THE TEST

'The Gladness of Nature'

There are notes of joy from the hang-bird and wren,
And the gossip of swallows through all the sky;
The ground squirrel gaily chirps by his den,
And the wilding bee hums merrily by.

The clouds are at play in the azure space
And their shadows at play on the bright-green vale,
And here they stretch to the frolic chase,
And there they roll on the easy gale.

There’s a dance of leaves in that aspen bower,
There’s a titter of winds in that beechen tree,
There’s a smile on the fruit, and a smile on the flower,
And a laugh from the brook that runs to the sea.

And look at the broad-faced sun, how he smiles
On the dewy earth that smiles in his ray,
On the leaping waters and gay young isles;
Ay, look, and he’ll smile thy gloom away.

~William Cullen Bryant

1. From the above poem, the word ‘hum’ in line 4 is an example of what literary element?
a. inversion
b. parallelism
c. onomatopoeia
d. rhyme

2. From the same poem, what device is the poet using in line 13?
a. alliteration
b. free verse
c. symbol
d. personification