MID TERM TEST

POETRY IN ELT
Name: Silva Noridha Sitompul
NIM: F1021191049
Class:A3

Part 1 (20 pt)

Answer the following questions correctly!
1. What do you understand about poetry? (5 pt)
2. Mention and explain the general structure of classic poetry! (5 pt)
3. In your opinion, why do English Education students need to learn poetry? Explain and give
examples! (10 pt)

Answer:

1.Poetry is a written art form that contains language with aesthetic qualities and has deep meaning. It
may be the pouring out of one's heart and be written down in meaningful beautiful words. Endings
can contain a word or a syllable that is repeated over.

2.The general structure of classic poetry is:

a.Stanza: A stanza is a group of lines in a poem. It is often called a “verse”
b.Rhyme: Rhyme is a pattern of words that contain similar sounds.
c.Meter: Meter is the rhythmic structure of a poem.
d.Line Break: A line break is where a line of poetry ends.

3.The use of poetry as a source is one of the efforts to create a more varied learning process for
students. In this way it is hoped that students will be better able to develop English skills.
For example:
-To enable students to understand and enjoy the poetry.
-To enable the students to understand the central idea, thoughts of poetry and beauty of the language.
-To enable the students to recite the poem with proper beats, stress, intonation, accent and rhytm.
-To enable the students to imagine and develop their aesthetic sense.

Part 2 (20 pt)

Analyze the figurative languages used in the poems below!
Find 5 figurative languages in the poems; then analyse the meaning of the figurative languages
used in the verses you have found!
 The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I marked the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

By Robert Frost

Answer:
5 figurative languages in the poem is:
a.Metaphor:There are many metaphors in the poem like road, fork in the road and yellowwoods. The
road in the poem is the metaphor of life, while the fork on the road metaphorically represents the
choices we make to determine the course of our lives. Similarly, yellow woods are the metaphor of
making decisions during the hard times of a person’s life. These metaphors used in this poem
emphasize the importance of different decisions we make in different situations and their impacts on
our lives.

b.Simile:A simile is a device used to compare things with familiar things to let the readers know it
easily. There is one simile used in the second stanza such as “as just as fair”. It shows how the poet
has linked the road less taken to the easy way through life.

c.Personification:Robert Frost has personified road in the third line of the second stanza. Here, it is
stated “Because it was grassy and wanted wear” as if the road is human, and that it wants to wear and
tear.

d.Assonance: Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds such as the sound of /a/ and /o/ in quick
succession in “though as far that the passing” and in “Somewhere ages and ages hence.”

e.Consonance: Consonance is the repetition of consonant sounds such as /d/ in “two roads diverging in
a yellow wood” and /t/ sound in “though as far as the passing there.”

Part 3 (60 pt)

Create:
1. 1 Hakyu (25 pt)

2. 1 Free Verse (35 pt)

- Theme: Mother
- 3 stanzas of four verses (3 quatrains)
- Using symbolism, hyperbole, alliteration, sarcasm, and idiom

Answer:
1.Example: A World of Dew
”A world of dew,
And within every dewdrop
A world of struggle.

2.Example: What “Mother” Means

“Mother” is such a simple word,
But to me there’s meaning seldom heard.
For everything I am today,
My mother’s love showed me the way.

I’ll love my mother all my days,

For enriching my life in so many ways.
She set me straight and then set me free,
And that’s what the word “mother” means to me.

Thanks for being a wonderful mother, Mom!