Poetry Tests

7th and 8th Grades

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”

1st period continued

• “I’m Nobody”

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”

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”

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

More Poetry Terms• Repetition• Alliteration• Free verse• Allusion• Stanza

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

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

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

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)

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

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