Poetry Test

The poetry test is tomorrow, 6 June 2007.  Classes went over material they are to be tested on today in class.

The first page consists of matching.  Know the definitions of the following poetry terms:

• Allegory
• Blank Verse
• Alliteration
• Allusion
• Paraphrase
• Denotation
• Assonance
• Paradox
• Metaphor
• Meter
• Connotation
• Irony
• Form
• Sarcasm
• Caesura
• Free Verse
• Onomatopoeia
• Oxymoron
• Personification
• Consonance

The second page has the poem “The Art of Drowning.”  There is a word bank on the bottom of the page, which tells which poetic elements must be identified in the poem.  These elements consist of the following:

• Run-on line
• Personification
• Paradox
• Metaphor
• Denotation
• Irony
• Symbol
• Stress
• Stanza
• Caesura
• Sarcasm
• Imagery
• Free Verse
• End-stopped line
• Blank Verse

The third page contains the Emily Dickinson poem that begins with the line “Because I could not stop for Death.”  Students must analyze the poem, showing the form, meaning, musicality, and figurative language.  While there are a wide variety of plausible responses, students must be able to support what they right with evidence from the poem.

The fourth page is a mystery and was not disclosed by the real Herr Stuck.