Poetry Unit Test

Literary Terms/Elements: Select the best definition for each of the following terms. Fill
in the corresponding letters on the answer sheet.
a. personification
ab. Assonance
bd. Meter

b. alliteration
ac. Onomatopoeia
be. Theme

c. metaphor
d. simile
ad. Imagery ae. tone
cd. consonance

e. speaker
bc. Mood

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3.
4.

The voice in the poem. It may be a fictional character, an object or the author.
Repetition of the same vowel sound in several words.
Repetition of the same consonant sound in several words.
Comparison between two unlike things without the use of like, as, than or
resembles.
5. When human qualities are given to something not human.
6. The attitude a writer takes towards an audience, subject or character.
7. Describes the place for you, focusing on sight, sound and smell. Relates to past
experiences of the reader.
8. Word making by the imitation of sounds.
9. Comparison between two dissimilar things using like, as, than or resembles.
10. Repetition of sound at the beginning of several words.
11. The rhythm or tempo in which a poem is written in.
12. The main point or meaning behind a poem.
13. The atmosphere of a poem.
Multiple Choice
14. In the poem, I Wandered Lonely as a cloud, the following phrase is what
literary element: I wandered lonely as a cloud / That floats on high oer vales and
hill.
a. Metaphor
b. Allusion
c. Simile
d. Consonance
15. The following phrase is what literary element: Beside the lake, beneath the trees/
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
a. Rhyme
b. Meter
c. Tone
d. Onomatopoeia
16. The following phrase is what literary element: The waves beside them danced,
but they/ Out-did the sparkling waves in glee: -
a. Assonance
b. Personification

c. Alliteration
d. Rhyme
17. Which one of these phrases is an example of alliteration?
a. Blasphemous heretics and sulfurous cynics.
b. White waters whisper woefully.
c. Beat the fleet
d. Throwing bones at small children.
18. Which one of these phrases is an example of consonance?
a. Intense repentance on broken fences.
b. Ten thousand saw I at a glance
c. lady lounges lazily
d. Savior of our country.
19. Which one of these phrases is an example onomatopoeia
a. They day breaks.
b. The murmuring of innumerable bees.
c. The trees swayed in the gentle summer breeze.
d. Flamingos dance with watermelons.
20. Which one of these phrases in an example of assonance?
a. I make the impossible possible.
b. For oft, when on my couch I lie/ In vacant or in pensive mood
c. And then my heart with pleasure fills / And dances with the daffodils
d. They stretched in never ending line.

Poetry Interpretation
A. Ah! Sunflower
1. Describe personification in the whole of this poem. Use specific examples, and
explain how this is personification.

2. Summarize the meaning of this poem.

B. Apparently with no Surprise

1. List the metaphor used in this poem.

2. Why do you think the speaker says God is approving of the flowers death?
William Blake: Ah! Sunflower
Ah! sunflower, weary of time,
Who countest the steps of the sun,
Seeking after that sweet golden clime
Where the travellers journey is done;
Where the youth pined away with desire,
And the pale virgin shrouded in snow,
Arise from their graves and aspire;
Where my sunflower wishes to go.

Apparently with no Surprise

Apparently with no surprise
To any happy Flower
The Frost beheads it at its play
In accidental power
The blonde Assassin passes on
The Sun proceeds unmoved
To measure off another Day
For an Approving God.

Poetry vs. Music

Direction: Compare the lyrics and the poem given below. In a two paragraph response,
compare the themes, and respond whether you think theyre similar. Then, in the second
paragraph, identify three literary elements in both the lyrics and the poem (so a total of
six elements total). Provide specific details/examples/quotes in your response.
Lyrics: Guns of Summer
If this is my last chance, keep it, I dont need your jokes.
Im better off without the misunderstanding.
If I am displeasing, then leave me, the reason to all our worth.
Would I truly care if we truly mean nothing?
Have we been fed crazy? Will the curtain save me from my final pun?
No one will save. You think that somebody cares while the water is rising up?
Let the cleansing begin.
Mother, will they ever thank you? Instead we hide behind these foolish lies.
Ambitions have told us otherwise.
Cold as winter, guns of summer Point and watch them run.
Summers will and debris in their son.
This is your last chance, will you give up?
But in our turning towards the new and disregarding these old ways,
Will we gain some truth or suffer again?
Allow it as it breaks and showers our soul.
Rain down fire and burn us all.
There is only one judge it is yourself.
Poem: I Hear an Army
I hear an army charging upon the land,
And the thunder of horses plunging, foam about their knees:
Arrogant, in black armour, behind them stand,
Disdaining the reins, with fluttering whips, the charioteers.
They cry unto the night their battle-name:
I moan in sleep when I hear afar their whirling laughter.
They cleave the gloom of dreams, a blinding flame,
Clanging, clanging upon the heart as upon an anvil.
They come shaking in triumph their long, green hair:
They come out of the sea and run shouting by the shore.
My heart, have you no wisdom thus to despair?
My love, my love, my love, why have you left me alone?