This will not be an all-round poetry test, and it won't cover the historical material. Know basic facts about sonnets: 14 lines, iambic pentameter (and what that means, and how to notate it), and the different rhyme schemes possible. Know octave/sestet; quatrains; (closing) couplet. Be able to recognize Spenserian; know the terms Petrarchan (Italian) and Shakespearean (English) and what structure they describe.
BUT--mostly, this is a "skills" test. You will be asked to do certain things/answer questions about a sonnet you haven't studied, and for another sonnet, you will need to write out a paraphrase. Finally, you'll be asked to compare one of those sonnets in certain ways with another one that we DID do in class (text will be provided).
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