PLATO Poetry Notes Study Guide

Study Guide
Poetry Test (PLATO)

The answers to this study guide can be found in the assessments and tutorials.

1. How is poetry different from prose?
2. Know when words rhyme. Look at some examples from the lesson and be able to determine if a few lines of poetry rhyme.
3. Know the definition of rhyme scheme.
4. Know the definition of free verse. Look at some examples from the lesson and be able to determine if a few lines of poetry are free verse or rhymed verse.
5. Know the rhyme scheme of a limerick and recognize a limerick.
6. Know how to mark the rhyme scheme of a poem. It is easy!
7. Be able to recognize an example of the following: alliteration, metaphor, onomatopoeia, personification, and simile.
8. Know the marking (accented and unaccented syllables) of the following metric feet: anapestic, dactylic, iambic, spondaic, and trochaic.
9. Know some symbols for old age in the symbolism lesson.
10. Look closely at “The Bean Eaters” questions for extra credit.