Poetry Multiple Choice

• Know more poetry terms
• Be able to pick out themes more easily
• Understand the tone of the poem
• Learn to identify type of poem
• Be able to read by the sentence rather than the line

One thing about poetry I have always had trouble with is simply reading it without getting caught up on reading it line by line, which can completely change and confuse a whole poem.  I get too caught up in the visual and the meter of the poem that it makes it hard for me to read it in sentences.  I have found that this problem is usually what keeps me from improving on a few of my other goals such as finding the theme and the tone.  Once I study the vocabulary a little more, I know the poetry terms and the types of poems will come much more easily, but re-learning how to read a poem is more difficult than it sounds.  My troubles with these five things were reflected in my mistakes on the practice test and I hope to improve on them this year.