Academic English I
Review for Poetry Test
Test Date:
11/30 or 12/1
Remember that all tests include cold reads where you will apply skills learned in
class such as identifying literary devices (alliteration, paradox, etc..) in poems we
have not discussed!!!!!!!!!!
1. Be able to define and /or identify all terms on Poetry exercise sheet.
2. Be able to identify the poet’s purpose for using literary devices.
Ex. Dylan Thomas uses repetition to express the theme of “Do Not Go
Gentle Into That Good Night.”
3. Be able to identify the form of poetry for each poem in the poetry packet.
a. “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” is a Villanelle.
b. “Death be not Proud” is a Petrarchan Sonnet.
c. Sonnets 11,130, 142 are Shakespearean sonnets.
4. Be able to define and diagram the parts of a Shakespearean Sonnet.
a. Quatrains
b. Couplet
c. Rhyme scheme (ababcdcdefefgg)
d. Iambic pentameter
SONNET 116
e. Let me not to the marriage of true minds a
Admit impediments. Love is not love b
Which alters when it alteration finds, a
Or bends with the remover to remove: b
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark c
That looks on tempests and is never shaken; d
It is the star to every wandering bark, c
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. d
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks e
Within his bending sickle's compass come: f
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, e
But bears it out even to the edge of doom. f
If this be error and upon me proved, g
I never writ, nor no man ever loved. g
5. Be able to identify the organization of a sonnet (what each section should be
doing)
Traits of a Shakespearean Sonnet
1. 14 lines
2. Rhyme Scheme: abab cdcd efef gg
3. Iambic Pentameter
4. 3 quatrains and a couplet
5. Each quatrain establishes a new idea that is connected to the
previous idea or introduces a new metaphor.
6. Couplet offers a summary of the ideas or a new take on the ideas
presented in the quatrains.
6. Identify the literary devices and figurative language from the assigned
vocabulary in a cold read.
7. Be able to explain the cultural influence within the poetry (religion, race,
personal background of the poet and the time in which the author was
writing). See your poetry notes!!!!!!!!!
8. Be able to interpret or paraphrase lines from the poems in the poetry packet
to show understanding of author’s intended meaning.
9. Know the titles of the poems and corresponding poets.
a. Shakespearean Sonnets (116, 130, 142) by William Shakespeare
b. Petrarchan Sonnets by Petrarch are different than Shakespearean
c. “The Seven Stages of Man” William Shakespeare
d. “Death be not Proud” by John Donne
e. “Do not go gentle into that good night” by Dylan Thomas
f. “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost
g. “Fire and Ice” by Robert Frost
h. “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” and “Theme for English B” by Langston
Hughes
i. “Coca Cola and Coco Frio” by Martin Espada
10. Be able to identify the theme of each poem