useful to revise all the poems before your exam

WHICH POEM…?
Review of 15 poems from Songs of Ourselves


. Directions: Identify the poems described by putting the numbers of the poems in the blank.
__________ 1. Which poems have nature in them?
__________ 2. Which poem deal with social injustice and poverty?
__________ 3. Which poems deal with childhood or childhood memories?
__________ 4. Which poems are about an experience that the person remembers and holds as important: a pivotal moment or something s/he wants to remember always because it is special?
__________ 5. Which poems discuss the mortality of men?
__________ 6. Which poems have first person narration?
__________ 7. Which poems deal with work or working experiences?
__________ 8. Which poems address relationships between children and adults?
__________ 9. Which poems address the problems of getting along with others?
__________ 10. Which poems are written in iambic pentameter?
__________ 11. Which poems are free verse?
__________ 12. Which poems were written in the 19th century?
__________ 13. Which poems were written in the 20th century?
__________ 14. Which are portrayals of the lives of women?
__________ 15. Which poems were clearly affected by the background and/or training of the poet?
__________ 16. Which poems were written by women?
__________ 17. Of the poems listed above, which ones were written by poets who died young?
__________ 18. Which poems draw a portrait of an individual or character?
__________ 19. In which poems do the people struggle with a lack of freedom or choice?
__________ 20. Which poems are written by poets who were not from England?

B. Directions: Match the term with its meaning and give an example of each (if it has a line following it).
____ 1. Alliteration ______________________a. The mood of the piece—e.g., depressed, angry.
____ 2. Assonance______________________b. Something that stands for something else
____ 3. Metaphor_______________________ c. The main ideas or topics of the text
____ 4. Metric patterns d. The rhyming pattern in a stanza (e.g. AABBCA)
____ 5. Iambic pentameter________________e. A group of lines in a poem—like a poem paragraph
____ 6. trochaic tetrameter _______________f. Comparing things using “like” or “as”
____ 7. spondaic foot____________________g. a 14 line poem—with 2 stanzas: octave (8 lines) and sestet (6)
____ 8. onomatopoeia ___________________h. How formal or informal the text is—e.g. slang? formal?
____ 9. personification ___________________i. A word that sounds like the noise it is describing.
____10. simile __________________________j. Something inanimate is spoken of as though it were alive.
____11. sonnet k. The regular pattern of stressed & unstressed syllables in a poetry line
____12. symbol_________________________l. The atmosphere or feeling that a piece of writing creates.
____13. subtext m. The person telling the story.
____ 14. audience n. five iambic feet in each line
____ 15. rhyming couplet o. Something is described by comparing it to something else (but not using “like” or “as”)
____ 16. dialect p. four trochaic feet in each line
____ 17. image q. a picture to help the reader see something clearly
____ 18. emotive language r. People from different places have different versions of the same language
____ 19. mood s. a pair of rhyming lines in a poem
_____20. narrator t. Language and words used to make a reader feel a particular emotion
____ 21. stanza u. The people who read or listen to what is being said.
_____22. theme v. Words close to each other have the same vowel sounds
_____23. tone w. Words close to each other have the same initial consonant sound
_____ 24. rhyming scheme x. All the words are emphasized in the poetry line