Name: ___________________________________________________ Date: ____________________ Poetry Unit Test Matching: Match the correct term with the definition.

Personification Imagery Simile Onomatopoeia Repetition Alliteration Rhyme Figurative Language Metaphor Hyperbole

1. __________________________ A recurrence of sounds and a matching of sounds. 2. __________________________ Repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words. 3. __________________________ A word or phrase is used more than once for emphasis 4. __________________________ Language that evokes one or all of the five senses: seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, touching. 5. __________________________ Giving human qualities to animals or objects 6. __________________________ The comparison of two things using like or as 7. __________________________ A comparison of two unlike things 8. __________________________ When a word imitates the sound it represents. 9. __________________________ An exaggeration or overstatement 10. _________________________ The use of words that go beyond their literal meaning. Multiple Choice: Choose the letter of the best answer _______ 11. Which of the following lines is an example of alliteration? a. Thou, from whose c. Tyger, tyger burning unseen presence the bright, leaves dead d. Once upon a midnight b. When the stars threw dreary down their spears ________ 12. Which of the following words is an example of onomatopoeia? a. wind c. slip b. hit d. splash

________ 13. What is the term for a foot with one unstressed and one stressed syllable? a. iamb c. trochee b. anapest d. dactyl _________ 14. What is the term for a foot with two strong stresses? a. anapest c. trochee b. spondee d. dactyl _________ 15. What is the term for a foot with one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables? a. iamb c. spondee b. anapest d. dactyl __________ 16. What is the term for a foot with a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable? a. iamb c. trochee b. anapest d. spondee __________ 17. What is the term for a foot with two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable? a. anapest b. trochee c. dactyl d. iamb Identification & Short Answer: Answer the following questions based on each questions instructions. For the following lines in questions 18-25, tell me what type of meter each line or lines contains & label the stressed & unstressed syllables. (The / is to indicate the end of a line. Dont let this fool you!) (Example If music be the food of love, play on. Iambic Pentameter)

18. To think how they may ache in icy hoods and mails 19. All things/ Must pass/Away 20. Had we but World enough, and Time,/This coyness Lady were no crime. 21. But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?

22. O could I feel as I have felt, or be what I have been, 23. When up aloft/ I fly and fly 24. I know not whom I meet/ I know not where I go 25. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary For questions 26-30, identify each line as containing either a simile or a metaphor. ____________________26. He is a pig. Thou art sunshine. _______________27. For ever since that time you went away / I've been a rabbit burrowed in the wood _______________28. You are like a hurricane: there's calm in your eye, but I'm getting blown away _______________29. My love is like a red, red rose. _______________30. Life is a beach For questions 31-44 identify the rhyme scheme of the following sonnet. Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy Will, And Will to boot, and Will in over-plus; More than enough am I that vexed thee still, To thy sweet will making addition thus. Wilt thou, whose will is large and spacious, Not once vouchsafe to hide my will in thine? Shall will in others seem right gracious, And in my will no fair acceptance shine? The sea, all water, yet receives rain still, And in abundance addeth to his store; So thou, being rich in Will, add to thy Will One will of mine, to make thy large will more. Let no unkind, no fair beseechers kill; Think all but one, and me in that one Will.

45. Define stanza.

46. Define meter.

47. Define tone. The Raven: The following questions all deal with Poes The Raven. 48. Describe the speakers situation at the beginning of the poem.

49. How does the speakers reaction change each time the bird says Nevermore?

50. Identify the rhyme scheme & meter of the first stanza. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door Only this and nothing more."