Study Guide for Unit 4: Poetry Test
Mr. Rodriguez
English II
Study Guide for Unit 4: Poetry Test
Use your notes from the textbook, board, and PowerPoint presentations to find the answers to these questions.
Fill in the defintions of these Literary Terms to Know: Of these 22 terms, 20 of them will appear on the test.
- communication:
- lyric poetry:
- form:
- rhyme:
- figures of speech:
- personification:
- assonance:
- tone:
- speaker:
- imagery:
- stanza:
- tanka:
- similes:
- sound devices:
- consonance:
- narrative poetry:
- figurative language:
- meter:
- sonnet:
- metaphors:
- alliteration:
- onomatopoeia:
Write two important biographical points for each Poet we have studied:
Federico Garcia Lorca:
Rudyard Kipling:
William Shakespeare:
Priest Jakuren:
Ono Komachi:
Edna St. Vincent Millay:
John McCrae:
Carl Sandburg:
“The Guitar” pg. 649:
What is weeping and why?
What is the guitar compared to?
What is causing the pain?
“Danny Deever” pg. 653:
In comparing the Files-on-Parade to the Color-Sergeant, what is the difference in their attitude about the hanging of Danny Deever?
What did Danny Deever do that led to his execution?
What do the young recruits do to help them forget this experience?
“Sonnet 18” pg. 687:
What is this poem about?
What is a summer’s day being compared to?
What will never fade?
“Tanka” by Priest Jakuren pg. 688:
How is Loneliness compared to something else?
What question cannot be asked?
“Tanka” by Ono Komachi pg. 688:
What is this poem about?
What does the speaker prefer to do if they recognized what was happening?
“Conscientious Objector” pg. 726:
What does a Conscientious Objector refuse to do?
What “thing” is personified in this poem and what is “thing” setting off to do?
How is the speaker refusing to help and who is the brother toward the end of the poem?
“In Flanders Fields” pg. 738:
Who are the collective speakers of the poem?
How is the third stanza different than the first two?
Even though war raged and soldiers died, what “things” in nature seemed unaffected by it?
“Jazz Fantasia” pg. 739:
What is the speaker of the poem describing?
How does each Stanza show changes in tempo, mood, and energy?
Be able to identify examples of four musical devices in the poem:
Other advice:
- You will be given an unknown poem and asked to identify examples of alliteration, assonance, onomatopoeia, imagery, simile, and metaphor.
- You will be given lines from the poetry we have studied and you must be able to identify which poem it comes from.
- Take your book and binder home so you have everything you need to study.
- Don’t forget to bring your book back to class and bring your study guide/materials as you will be given a few minutes before the test to review.
- Study, study, study!!!