Poetry Test Study Guide

• Format:
  • Multiple-Choice (40)
  • Sonnet Annotation (1 from list below)
  • Matching (10)

• Items to Study:
  • Multiple-Choice Poetry
    • The poem text will be given for the ones that are used in the multiple choice section
    • AP style multiple-choice questions
      • "Those Winter Sundays" (757)
      • "The Fish" (767)
      • "To His Coy Mistress" (812)
      • "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" (814)
      • "Scarborough Fair" (917)
  • Matching Poetry
    • Know speaker / theme / tone / SIFT for each poem
      • "Introduction to Poetry" (776)
      • "Ode on a Grecian Urn" (826)
      • "Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes" (831)
      • "Taking Off Billy Collins's Clothes" (832)
      • "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun" ("Sonnet 130")
  • Sonnets (Petrarchan/Italian and Shakespearean/English)
    • One of these sonnets will be there for you to annotate. You will need to draw the line divisions, name each division, label the rhyme scheme, state the problem, give the solution, label the volta, give aspects of the speake, tone words, and SIFT examples
      • "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" (974)
      • "The World Is Too Much with Us" (975)
      • "The Facebook Sonnet" (979)
  • Terms - the following terms will be mentioned in the multiple choice section of the test.
    • enjambment, onomatopoeia, alliteration, assonance, consonance, rhyme, eye rhyme, end rhyme, internal rhyme, masculine rhyme, feminine rhyme, triple rhyme, exact rhyme, slant rhyme, free verse, blank verse, metaphor, simile, personification, allusion, irony, paradox, synecdoche, couplet, tercet, quatrain, cinquain, sestet, septet, and octave.