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Poetry Unit Test

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Identification: Using the options from the box below, identify the title and poet of each of the lines below. Then explain in 1-2 sentences what the line means to the rest of the poem. (4 pts) Note: Not all of the poets or titles will be used. Some may be used more than once. Anne Bradstreet Sherman Alexie Edgar Allan Poe Walt Whitman Maya Angelou Emily Dickinson Langston Hughes Robert Frost Sylvia Plath T.S. Eliot E.E. Cummings Joy Harjo

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening The Map to the Next World Still I Rise A Narrow Fellow in the Grass I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings The Author to Her Book How to Write the Great American Indian Novel The Road Not Taken I, Too, Sing America Morning Song O Captain! My Captain! The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Because I Could Not Stop for Death Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town Night Funeral in Harlem Daddy Somewhere I Have Never Travelled Annabel Lee I Hear America Singing 1. Let us go then, you and I,/When the evening is spread out against the sky

2. Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,/I am the dream and the hope of the slave.

3. But I have promises to keep,/And miles to go before I sleep

4. rise up and hear the bells;/Rise upfor you the flag is flungfor you the bugle trills,

5. I'm no more your mother/Than the cloud that distills a mirror

6. We slowly drove He knew no haste/And I had put away/My labor and my leisure too,/For His Civility

7. She should be compared to nature:/brown hills, mountains, fertile valleys, dewy grass, wind, and clear water.

8. I washed thy face, but more defects I saw,/And rubbing off a spot still made a flaw.

9. his feet are tied/so he opens his throat to sing.

10. And when you take your next breath as we enter the fifth world/there will be no X, no guidebook with words you can carry.

Multiple Choice. Circle the correct answer from the selection given under each question. (1 pt) 11. Langston Hughes work was written as part of: a. The Civil War b. The Harlem Renaissance c. The Civil Rights Movement d. The Black Power Movement 12. Maya Angelous work was written as part of: a. The Civil War b. The Harlem Renaissance c. The Civil Rights Movement d. The Black Power Movement

13. E.E. Cummings poems frequently play with: a. Spelling b. Punctuation c. Imagery d. All of the above e. None of the above 14. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock contains allusions to: a. Shakespeare b. Christopher Marlowe c. The Bible d. Dantes Inferno 15. Select the answer that is NOT TRUE about Emily Dickinson. a. She was a recluse. b. She only wore the color white. c. She never married. d. She wrote only 25 poems. 16. Which of the following lines represents assonance? (Underline where it is to receive the full point) a. And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darlingmy darlingmy life and my bride, b. The wood-cutter's song, the ploughboy's on his way in the morning, or at noon intermission or at sundown, c. It was all their tears that made That poor boy's Funeral grand. d. when by now and tree by leaf she laughed his joy she cried his grief 17. Which of the following lines represents alliteration? (Underline where it is to receive the full point) a. A white deer will greet you when the last human climbs from the destruction. b. Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. c. The shoemaker singing as he sits on his bench, the hatter singing as he stands, d. With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high,

18. Of the poems that we read, which of the ones below included elements of personification? a. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening b. Because I could not stop for Death c. Night Funeral in Harlem d. Daddy 19. Robert Frost won several awards for his work. Of the following options, what award has he won? a. Nobel Prize for Literature b. Pulitzer Prize c. Franz-Kafka Award d. Hugo Award 20. What genre is Edgar Allan Poe best known for? a. Mythological b. Historical c. Realism d. Macabre

Bonus Question. This is a question for feedback, not for points. Please answer anyway! What was your favorite poem that we read during this unit and why?

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