English 12 Poetry Unit Final Exam -- JUNE 2, 2010 !! NOTE: NEW DATE!!

Poem Poet Form # of times reviewed
The World is Too Much With Us William Wordsworth Italian Sonnet/lyric
Let Me Not to the Marriage of True minds William Shakespeare Elizabethan Sonnet/lyric
Nuns Fret Not William Wordsworth Italian Sonnet/lyric
What Lips my lips have kissed Edna St. Vincent Millay Italian Sonnet/lyric
Love is not all, it is not meat nor drink Edna St. Vincent Millay Elizabethan Sonnet/lyric
The Dumka B.H. Fairchild Free Verse/lyric
Mending Wall Robert Frost Blank Verse/lyric
Woodtick Joy Kogawa Free Verse/lyric
The Lake Isle of Innisfree William Butler Yeats Lyric
As I Walked Out One Evening W.H. Auden Ballad
Funeral Blues (Stop All The Clocks) W.H. Auden Elegy
Ulysses Alfred Lord Tennyson Dramatic Monologue
Ode on a Grecian Urn John Keats Ode
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English 12
May 2010
Name: _________________
English 12 Poetry Unit (2009-2010) and Poetry Exam Info

The above are the poems for which you are responsible for this poetry unit (note: each of these poems can be found on line if you have lost your copy).

The Poetry Unit Exam will be on June 2nd. This is a MAJOR exam. It will be valued at approximately 30% of Term 3; you must be there unless you have a doctor’s note.

It will consist of the following types of questions:

 Multiple choice questions
 A written response analysis question

You must be prepare yourself to

 Apply all the literary devices and poetic terminology as studied and provided on English 12 terminology sheet.
 Know the information in the chart provided above.
 Be able to apply devices, terminology and analysis to the poems studied in the unit and also to sight poems found on the poetry unit exam.
 Understand and be able to apply TP-CASTT
 Compare and contrast themes among the poems.
 Demonstrate that you can write about poetry using the conventions taught and expected.