1. Poetry Tests
7th and 8th Grades

2. 1st period poems
“Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out”
“Weather”
“Onomotopoeia”
“Father William”
“Jabberwocky”
“Parents Just Don’t Understand”
“The Highwayman”
“Seal”
“Forsythia”
“The Desert Is My Mother”
“Annabel Lee”
“Fog”

3. 1st period continued
“I’m Nobody”

4. 2nd period poems
“Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out”
“Weather”
“Onomatopoeia”
“Father William”
“Jabberwocky”
“Parents Just Don’t Understand”
“The Highwayman”
“Seal”
“Forsythia”
“The Desert Is My Mother”
“Annabel Lee”
“Eldorado”
“Two Voices in a Meadow”
“Watermelons”

5. 8th grade poems “Paul Revere’s Ride” “O Captain! My Captain!”
“The Road Not Taken”
“Parents Just Don’t Understand”
“Cat”
Sonnet 18
Sonnet 130
“The Kiss”
“Concrete Mixers”
“Harlem Night Song”
“Describe Somebody”
“The City Is So Big”

6. Poetry Terms to Know-7th, 8th
Rhyme- end rhyme, half/forced rhyme, internal rhyme
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Imagery
Figurative Language- simile, metaphor, extended metaphor
Hyperbole
Rhyme scheme
Tone
Mood
Speaker
Sonnet
Symbol, symbolism
Narrative poem
Concrete poem

7. More Poetry Terms
Repetition
Alliteration
Free verse
Allusion
Stanza

8. 7th vocabulary from poems
sage
supple
incessantly
forsythia
utter
swerve
smattering
spigot
curdled
coveted
rancid
kinsmen

9. More 7th grade vocab uncommonly slather withered envying telegram
haunches (1st period only)
minnow
sputters
banish (1st period only)

10. 8th vocabulary from poems
flatterer
peril
somber
diverged
dew
defiance
urban
roam
ponderous
bellow
exulting

11. 7th grade poets Edgar Allan Poe Pat Mora Shel Silverstein Alfred Noyes
Lewis Carroll
Eve Merriam
Will Smith
Carl Sandburg (1st period only)
Emily Dickinson (1st period only)
Mary Ellen Solt
William Jay Smith
Richard Wilbur (2nd period only)

12. More 7th grade poets
Charles Simic (2nd period only)

13. 8th grade poets Langston Hughes Walt Whitman Jacqueline Woodson
Eleanor Farjeon
Robert Frost
Sara Teasdale
William Shakespeare
Will Smith
James Whitcomb Riley
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Patricia Hubbell
Richard Garcia