Unit Test in Poetry
I. Identify the type of sonnet given below by determining the rhyme scheme then write your answer below the poem.
1. Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye ______
2. That thou consumest thyself in single life? ______
3. Ah! if thou issueless shalt hap to die. ______
4. The world will wail thee, like a makeless wife; ______
5. The world will be thy widow and still weep ______
6. That thou no form of thee hast left behind, ______
7. When every private widow well may keep ______
8. By children's eyes her husband's shape in mind ______
9. Look, what an unthrift in the world doth spend ______
10. Shifts but his place, for still the world enjoys it; ______
11. But beauty's waste hath in the world an end, ______
12. And kept unused, the user so destroys it. ______
13. No love toward others in that bosom sits ______
14. That on himself such murderous shame commits. ______
15. _________________________
II. Determine the sound device used in the following lines/passages. Choose the letter of the correct answer from the choices below.
a. Alliteration d. Rhyme
b. Assonance e. Repetition
c. Onomatopoeia f. Refrain
_______ 16. She left the Heaven of Heroes and came down to make a man to meet the mortal need. A man to match the mountains and the sea, the friendly welcome of the wayside well.
_______ 17. Now Beowulf bode in the burg of the Scyldings, Leader beloved, and long he ruled in fame with all folk since his father had gone.
_______ 18. Click, click. She made a sound with her tongue to show her displeasure.
_______ 19. ‘T is so much joy! ’T is so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw;
_______ 20. For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
_______ 21. “Poetry is old, ancient, goes back far. It is among the oldest of
1. Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye ______
2. That thou consumest thyself in single life? ______
3. Ah! if thou issueless shalt hap to die. ______
4. The world will wail thee, like a makeless wife; ______
5. The world will be thy widow and still weep ______
6. That thou no form of thee hast left behind, ______
7. When every private widow well may keep ______
8. By children's eyes her husband's shape in mind ______
9. Look, what an unthrift in the world doth spend ______
10. Shifts but his place, for still the world enjoys it; ______
11. But beauty's waste hath in the world an end, ______
12. And kept unused, the user so destroys it. ______
13. No love toward others in that bosom sits ______
14. That on himself such murderous shame commits. ______
15. _________________________
II. Determine the sound device used in the following lines/passages. Choose the letter of the correct answer from the choices below.
a. Alliteration d. Rhyme
b. Assonance e. Repetition
c. Onomatopoeia f. Refrain
_______ 16. She left the Heaven of Heroes and came down to make a man to meet the mortal need. A man to match the mountains and the sea, the friendly welcome of the wayside well.
_______ 17. Now Beowulf bode in the burg of the Scyldings, Leader beloved, and long he ruled in fame with all folk since his father had gone.
_______ 18. Click, click. She made a sound with her tongue to show her displeasure.
_______ 19. ‘T is so much joy! ’T is so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw;
_______ 20. For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
_______ 21. “Poetry is old, ancient, goes back far. It is among the oldest of