Example Test Poems To prepare for Poetry Types

Example Test Poems To prepare for Poetry Types and Terms Test That is TOMORROW.

On a fresh sheet of loose leaf paper… 1. Write today’s date and the title Poetry Review. 2. Number 1 -18 and skip lines, front side only. These questions are designed very similarly to the test. Be ready to give me an answer and prove to me how you know it. You can use your notes…. Let’s go!

# 1 What type of poem is this and how do you know? (Must give evidence that proves you know your poetry) “Whitecaps” by Richard Wright Whitecaps on the bay: A broken signboard banging In the April wind.

#2 What type of poem is this and how do you know? (Must give evidence that proves you know your poetry) “ 130” by William Shakespeare My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips’ red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound; I grant I never saw a goddess go; My mistress when she walks treads on the ground. And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare As any she belied with false compare.

'Twas Friday morn when we set sail, And we had not got far from land, When the Captain, he spied a lovely mermaid, With a comb and a glass in her hand. #3 What type of Oh the ocean waves may roll, poem is this And the stormy winds may blow, While we poor sailors go skipping aloft and how do And the landlubbers lay down below, below And the landlubbers lay down below. you know? up spoke the Captain of our gallant ship, (Must give evidence Then And a jolly old Captain was he; that proves you know"I have a wife in Salem town, But tonight a widow she will be. " your poetry) “The Mermaid” Oh the ocean waves may roll, And the stormy winds may blow, While we poor sailors go skipping aloft And the landlubbers lay down below, below And the landlubbers lay down below. Then up spoke the Cook of our gallant ship, And a greasy old Cook was he; "I care more for my kettles and my pots, Than I do for the roaring of the sea. " Oh the ocean waves may roll, And the stormy winds may blow, While we poor sailors go skipping aloft And the landlubbers lay down below, below And the landlubbers lay down below. … Then three times 'round went our gallant ship, And three times 'round went she, And the third time that she went 'round She sank to the bottom of the sea.

# 4 What type of poem is this and how do you know? (Must give evidence that proves you know your poetry) One morning while eating my Wheaties, I felt the earth move 'neath my feeties. The cause for alarm Was a long lever-arm, At the end of which grinned Archimedes.

# 5 What type of poem is this and how do you know? (Must give evidence that proves you know your poetry) “Funeral Blues” by WH Auden Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come. Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead, Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves, Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves. He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong. The stars are not wanted now: put out every one; Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun; Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood. For nothing now can ever come to any good.

# 6 What type of poem is this and how do you know? (Must give evidence that proves you know your poetry) “Days” by Philip Larkin What are days for? Days are where we live. They come, they wake us Time and time over. They are to be happy in: Where can we live but days? Ah, solving that question Brings the priest and the doctor In their long coats

# 7 What type of poem is this and how do you know? (Must give evidence that proves you know your poetry) I sing of arms and the man, he who, exiled by fate, first came from the coast of Troy to Italy, and to Lavinian shores – hurled about endlessly by land sea, by the will of the gods, by cruel Juno’s remorseless anger, long suffering also in war, until he founded a city and brought his gods to Latium: from that the Latin people came, the lords of Alba Longa, the walls of noble Rome. Muse, tell me the cause: how was she offended in her divinity, how was she grieved, the Queen of Heaven, to drive a man, Excerpt from The Aeneid By Virgil noted for virtue, to endure such dangers, to face so many trials? Can there be such anger in the minds of the gods? … (The rest of the 9, 800 line poem is a bout the brave Aeneas and his heroic deeds. )

#8 What type of poem is this and how do you know? (Must give evidence that proves you know your poetry) “Remember” by Christina Rossetti Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land; When you can no more hold me by the hand, Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay. Remember me when no more day by day You tell me of our future that you plann'd: Only remember me; you understand It will be late to counsel then or pray. Yet if you should forget me for a while And afterwards remember, do not grieve: For if the darkness and corruption leave A vestige of the thoughts that once I had, Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad.

Example Short Answer: 1 -2 sentence explanation 9. Why aren’t narratives, ballads, and epics types of lyric poems? 10. Why is a sonnet a type of lyric? 11. Why are ballads and epics both types of narrative poems?

12. What poetry term is used in the following verses? Prove it. Do you ever feel like a plastic bag Drifting through the wind wanting to start again? Do you ever feel, feel so paper-thin Like a house of cards one blow from caving in? Do you ever feel already buried deep? Six feet under screams, but no one seems to hear a thing Do you know that there's still a chance for you? 'Cause there's a spark in you

13. What poetry term is used in the following verses? Prove it. Listen to the rivers, the raven’s song, the woodpecker’s knock, and your beating heart. Walk softly, mind the leaves dancing In shaky hands Of an old maple.

14. What poetry term is used in the following verses? Prove it. Our lives are made from these things, and when you describe them, you discover magic. It’s the way your pen becomes a wand in your hand, and this may be the only thing you need to know.

15. Is this poem free verse, or does it have a rhyme scheme? Prove it. I keep an old verse in my room That says believing in roses makes them bloom. I know enough of life’s toil To say it also takes rich, fertile soil Lots of good, old-fashioned care And rain to make roses blossom in air. Here a beautiful red field grows-I’d say the loveliest anyone knows.

16. What poetry term is used in this poem excerpt? Prove it. Oh, do you know the mountain road That leads to yonder peak? A few will walk that trail alone, Their dreams they go to seek. One such was Marian Blacktree, A lowly sheperdess, And courting her was Tom, the swain, Who loved her nonetheless. That night she came to Tom and said She longed to know the sky. "I'm weary of this valley, love, I want to learn to fly!" A thought occurred to Marian While watching o'er her sheep, And gazing at the mountain thus She nodded off to sleep.

17. Does the following poetry excerpt contain assonance or alliteration? Prove it. 1 Hear the mellow wedding bells, 2 Golden bells! 3 What a world of happiness their harmony foretells! 4 Through the balmy air of night 5 How they ring out their delight! 6 From the molten-golden notes, 7 And an in tune, 8 What a liquid ditty floats 9 To the turtle-dove that listens, while she gloats

18. Assonance or Alliteration? Proof? An Austrian array, awfully arrayed, Boldly by battery, besieged Belgrade. Cossack commanders, cannonading come, Dealing destruction’s devastating doom; Every endeavor, engineers essay For fame, fortune, forming furious fray. Gaunt gunners grapple, giving gashes good Heaves high his head heroic hardihood. Ibraham, Islam, Ismael, imps in ill, Jostle John Jarovlitz, Jem, Joe, Jack, Jill: Kick kindling Kutusoff, king’s kinsman kill; Labor low levels loftiest longest lines; . . .