Study Guide for the Second Unit Test

This Unit Test will have two parts:

1. Literary Terminology

2. A five-paragraph essay.

Part One: Literary Terminology:

Study the following terms from the glossary section of Literature Craft & Voice:

Free verse	Elegy
Canon	Closed couplet
Enjambment	Consonance
Assonance	Slant rhyme
Alliteration	Refrain
Iamb	In medias res
Internal refrain	Ode
Pastoral poetry	Prosody
Quatrain	Rising meter
Scansion	Sestet
Sestina	Sonnet
Stress	Syllabic verse

Part Two: A Five-Paragraph Essay

Prepare by reading the poems, “My Life Had Stood - a Loaded Gun,” by Emily Dickinson, and “The Lonely Wife,” by Amy Lowell, both of which we have read and had the opportunity to discuss.

I suggest that you read the poems a number of times, choose one, and consider how, during this test, you will compose a literary analysis drawing from your knowledge of the literary devices/techniques (consider the list above) that writers use to convey theme. For your essay, you will write and support a thesis statement about the theme, and you should surely arrive to class on the day of the test already knowing your thesis.

Further Information:

Consult “The Assignments Calendar” section of the syllabus for the date/time of this test takes place.

This is a 75 minute timed-examination.