12th grade quotations “cheat” sheet12th grade quotations “cheat” sheet
This is a list of poems and authors from which quotation questions MAY be
appearing on your final exam. Good luck guys.
As you look up the poems and plays, be aware that a quote from that piece of
literature may be used on the exam by asking such questions as:
“Who said?”
“What was meant by …?” or
“From what poem does this quote come?”
Author
Shakespeare
Duncan
Piece of writing
MacBeth --Banquo, Witches, MacBeth, Ldy MacBeth,
Hamlet -- Hamlet, Q Gertrude, Polonius,
Ophelia
P. Shelley
Lord Byron
R. Burns
Keats
E. Browning
Milton
Herrick
Blake
Housman
Donne
“Sonnet 116”
“Ozymandias”
“She Walks in Beauty”
“Mouse” “Louse”
“Ode on a Grecian Urn”
“Sonnet 43”
“When I consider How my Light is Spent”
Pardise Lost
“To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time”
“Tiger”
“To an Athlete Dying Young”
“Holy Sonnet 10”