The exam will be part multiple choice, part matching, and part true/false. There will be a one-paragraph extra credit option. Here are several questions you can use to help you prepare for the exam:

• What are several qualities, generated in groups and discussed in class (consult handout), that contribute to making a poem "powerful"? [An extra credit option may ask you to discuss what you consider to be some examples of powerful poems, and why.]
• Consider the assertion that poetry communicates in a "language of imagery": what is an image?
• What is "literal imagery"? What are the qualities of literal imagery? What are some examples of poems that use literal imagery in a vivid way?
• What is "figurative imagery"? What are several figures of speech we discussed in class? How are they defined in your textbook? What are some examples of poems that use the kinds of figurative language we discussed in class?
• What are several techniques that poets use to get their language to "sound" poetic?
• What is meant by a poem's "structure"?
• What is "open form" poetry?
• What is "closed form" poetry? Can you define the several kinds of closed form poetry we discussed in class?

Prepare to recall and analyze the many poems assigned and/or discussed in class over the last few weeks (use the list below to help you recall them). Prepare to apply concepts from the questions above as well as concepts that carry over from fiction: ambiguity, theme, symbolism, irony, and paradox.

Each of these poems, unless otherwise noted, are in the Bedford Compact Introduction to Literature, 6/e.

The Secretary Chant (p. 498)
Those Winter Sundays ( p. 499)
The Piercing Chill I Feel (handout)
With No Immediate Cause (handout)
Catch (p. 503)
Ars Poetica (p. 896)
Introduction to Poetry (handout)
First Party at Ken Kesey's with Hells Angels (p. 715)
Mother to Son (handout)
A Simile (handout)
You Fit Into Me (p. 591)
The Panther (p. 583)
Mirror (handout)
Jazzonia (p. 810)
Player Piano (p. 635)
The Haunted Palace (p. 612)
Jabberwocky (p. 646)
My Mistresses Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun (p. 684)
Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night (p. 688)
L(a (p. 514)
When I Heard the Learned Astronomer (p. 904)

Study these particularly as they demonstrate concepts which carry over from our study of fiction:

Ambiguity: My Papa's Waltz (p. 671)
Symbol: The Sick Rose, My Love Is a Red, Red Rose, One Perfect Rose (handout)
Irony: Richard Cory (p. 614)) and First Party at Ken Kesey's with Hell's Angels (p. 715)
Paradox: Much Madness is Divinest Sense- (p.750)