Name: ___________________________ Class Period:_________ Date: ________________

Poetry! 1. What is a tanka?

a. A form of Japanese poetry that has exactly 31 syllables.

b. German poetry sent to sweethearts.

c. French poetry written on the spur of the moment.

d. American poetry from the wild west.

2. What was normally sent along with a tanka poem?

a. A stick

b. A symbolic item

c. Flowers

d. A pen

3. What was the name of the ballad we read?

a. Gwendolyn Brooks

b. The happy maiden, Maya

c. Bonny Barbara Allen

d. Phenomenal Woman

4. Who was the author of the ballad?

a. Anonymous

b. Carl Sandburg

c. Romio Pollazzo

d. Mr. Wickham

5. Ballads are written in…

a. Couplets

b. Quatrains

c. Iambic Pentameter

d. Sestets

6. What was the name of the ode we read in class?

a. Ode to my Books

b. Ode to my Pencil

c. Ode to my Socks

d. Ode to the Death of a Favorite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Golden Fishes

7. What were odes written for?

a. To remember

b. To celebrate

c. To mock

d. To understand

8. What is the following sentence an example of? “Angry Annie Ahnert ate apples at all advances.”

a. Onomatopoeia

b. Symbolism

c. Personification

d. Alliteration

9. What is author’s purpose?

a. The point they want to get across

b. The people they are writing the poem for

c. What they live their life for everyday

d. Who they don’t want to read their poems

10. What is always at the end of an ode?

a. A couplet that sums it all up

b. A refrain that repeats itself

c. A moral to the story

d. Advice about situations

*True or False: If the answer is true, circle the T. If the answer is false, circle the F and write the sentence below so that it is true.

11. T/F : Ballads are tales of true love or domestic violence that use metaphors and similies.

12. T/F : Petrarchan sonnets always have couplets at the end that sum up the poem.

13. T/F : A Shakespearean sonnet presents a problem, and then solves it.

14. T/F: Shakespeare perfected the art of writing the Petrarchan sonnet.

15. T/F: Consonance is the repetition of internal or ending consonant sounds.

*Matching: Match the term to the definition.

16. First 8 lines of a Pertrarchan sonnet ______

17. A poem that commemorates or celebrates. ______

18. Using a key word several times. ______

19. Comparison using like or as. ______

20. Traditional pattern of 5, 7, 5, 7, 7. _____

21. Transition in a Petrarchan sonnet ______

22. Last 6 lines of a Petrarchan sonnet ______

23. Always at the end of a Shakespearean sonnet ______

24. First 8 lines of a Shakespearean sonnet ______

25. Has refrains ______

Word Bank: A.Repetition

B. Tanka C. Ode

D. Octave E. Metaphor

F. similie G. Assonance

H. Consonance I. Volta

J. Sestet K. couplet

L. Quatrains M. Ballad

* Short Answer: 26. What is the difference between the rhyme schemes of the Shakespearean and the Petrarchan

sonnets?

27. What does a ballad do?

28. What is the strict structure of a tanka? How many syllables do they always have?

29. Write a tanka about something you love. (Ex: sports, music, a friend, a bf/gf, your parents…)

What would you send with it that is symbolic?

30. Write a sentence with onomatopoeia.

31. You will need 2 different colored highlighters for this problem. Find the examples of

alliteration, assonance, and consonance (Follow the key. Mark the ones with highlighter in the

key, so I know which color you used.) Mark the rhyme scheme along the side.

Romance by Edgar Allan Poe Romance, who loves to nod and sing

With drowsy head and folded wing Among the green leaves as they shake Far down within some shadowy lake,

To me a painted paroquet Hath been—most familiar bird— Taught me my alphabet to say, To lisp my very earliest word

While in the wild wood I did lie, A child—with a most knowing eye.

Key: Alliteration – highlight

Assonance – underline

Consonance – underline with

pencil

Of late, eternal condor years So shake the very Heaven on high

With tumult as they thunder by, I have no time for idle cares

Through gazing on the unquiet sky; And when an hour with calmer wings

Its down upon my spirit flings, That little time with lyre and rhyme To while away—forbidden things— My heart would feel to be a crime Unless it trembled with the strings.

32. Mark the first line in iambic pentameter; also mark the rhyme scheme along the side. Which type

of sonnet is this?

Ye ladies, walking past me piteous-eyed,

Who is the lady that lies prostrate here?

Can this be even she my heart holds dear?

Nay, if it be so, speak, and nothing hide.

Her very aspect seems itself beside,

And all her features of such altered cheer

That to my thinking they do not appear

Hers who makes others seem beatified.

‘If thou forget to know our lady thus,

Whom grief o'ercomes, we wonder in no wise,

For also the same thing befalleth us,

Yet if thou watch the movement of her eyes,

Of her thou shalt be straightaway conscious.

O weep no more; thou art all wan with sighs.