Poetry Test Study Guide
Use your notes in your reading journal, and your poetry literary terms notes to help you prepare for
your test. If you’ve been working hard in class, you should know most of the terms.
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Match all the literary terms with their definitions (no handout permitted).
Identify the poet who wrote each of the poems we’ve studied in class by matching him/her with
the poem he/she wrote that we studied.
Analyze a poem which you have not seen before, but which will be similar to the poems that we
have studied.
Identify the rhyme scheme of the poem
Identify literary techniques used by the poet by correctly identifying the literary terms used
Explain the mood of the poem
Explain the theme of the poem, and identify words / images in the text to support your opinion
Identify and explain the meaning of figurative language – simile, metaphor, hyperbole,
personification
Identify sound devices, alliteration, assonance, onomatopoeia
Correctly identify the form of new poems (limerick, haiku, concrete)
Poetry Test Study Guide
Use your notes in your reading journal, and your poetry literary terms notes to help you prepare for
your test. If you’ve been working hard in class, you should know most of the terms.
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


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Match all the literary terms with their definitions (no handout permitted).
Identify the poet who wrote each of the poems we’ve studied in class by matching him/her with
the poem he/she wrote that we studied.
Analyze a poem which you have not seen before, but which will be similar to the poems that we
have studied.
Identify the rhyme scheme of the poem
Identify literary techniques used by the poet by correctly identifying the literary terms used
Explain the mood of the poem
Explain the theme of the poem, and identify words / images in the text to support your opinion
Identify and explain the meaning of figurative language – simile, metaphor, hyperbole,
personification
Identify sound devices, alliteration, assonance, onomatopoeia
Correctly identify the form of new poems (limerick, haiku, concrete)