Each slide will have a specific question and/or direction. Pretend this is the quiz… answer each question on a scratch piece of paper. How well do you know the poetry terms and techniques that we have studied thus far?

a) connotation b) denotation c) tone d) imagery

a) “With eyes which are petals…” b) “I won’t avoid your eyes staring out of their sockets like glass” c) “When I am old, I shall wear purple” d) “Fog hanging like old coats between the trees”

a) language that appeals to the 5 senses b) a writer/speaker’s attitude toward a subject c) the reader’s emotion when reading a poem d) the dictionary definition of a word

I climb the black rock mountain stepping from day to day silently. I smell the wind for my ancestors pale blue leaves crushed wild mountain smell.

a) Figurative language that compares two objects using like or as. b) Figurative language that compares two objects without using like or as. c) Figurative language that is an exaggeration or an over-statement. d) Figurative language that gives objects/ideas human characteristics.

Sorrow cries her prayer into the rain Will she ever know happiness again? She spins cobweb threads upon her spinning wheel She’s afraid loneliness is all she’ll ever feel Raining endlessly, dripping to the drone Wondering, wordlessly, how did she get to be so alone?

a) book, railroad, plane b) stars, glitter, soul c) death, flame, jail d) pillow, street, Coke

a) a word that appeals to the 5 senses b) an object/idea that carries human- like characteristics c) the dictionary definition of a word d) a concrete image/object that represents an abstract idea/emotion

a) “Sorrow lifts her melancholy eyes” b) “Some nights the moon is the curve of a comb” c) “Your tears caused a flood” d) “He gives volcanic roars in sudden flashes”

a) simile b) sound imagery c) hyperbole

1) A 2) C 3) B 4) Black mountain; smell the wind for my ancestors; pale blue leaves; crushed wild mountain smell 5) C 6) Worried; afraid 7) B 8) D 9) A 10) Your own writing

 If you got 9 or 10 correct ---Study 5-10 min.  If you got 8 correct ---Study min.  If you got 7 correct ---Study min.  If you got 6 or lower ---Study AT LEAST 20 min.

 Take home your poetry folder.  Study your golden reference sheet of terms/techniques  Review all handouts and be sure you know definitions, how to find each technique in an example, and how to write your own lines of poetry incorporating the techniques!