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Unit Assignments:
Learn and apply poetry
terms; use your Glossary & Guide
Read introductions in your lit
book (poetry section) for chapters 3-15.
Review general questions for analysis
and evaluation (p. 746-47).
Read and analyze several poems
in class (whole class or small group)
group activity: plan for an explication
of Dover Beach (892)
AP poetry essay
Poetry terms test
Chapter
by Chapter:
| Chapter |
Terms |
Poems |
Activities |
| 3 (757) |
denotation,
connotation |
There
is no frigate like a book (758) |
Questions,
758 |
| 4 (771) |
imagery:
7 kinds |
After
Apple Picking (780); Those Winter Sundays (781) |
|
| 5 (784) |
metaphor,
simile, personification, apostrophe, metonymy |
Dream
Deferred (805); To His Coy Mistress (803) |
Questions,
804, 1-7 A Valediction
Forbidding Mourning (801) |
| 6 (807) |
symbol,
allegory |
The
Road Not Taken (807); The Writer (822) |
Questions
1-4 (824) |
| 7 (829) |
paradox,
overstatement, verbal irony, sarcasm, satire, irony |
Incident
(832); Ozymandias (838) |
My
Last Duchess (849) |
| 8 (852) |
allusion |
"Out,
Out--" (853); Miniver Cheevy (858) |
|
| 9 (865) |
total
meaning, prose meaning |
To
the Mercy Killers (875) |
|
| 10
(880) |
tone |
|
The
Death of a Soldier (1096); Dulce et Decorum Est (722); The
Man He Killed (739) |
| 11
(899) |
alliteration,
assonance, consonance, rime (different types), couplet |
We
Real Cool (907); Parting, Woman Work (908); Nothing Gold Can
Stay (913) |
|
| 12
(915) |
meter,
rhythm, verse, prose, foot, stanza, scansion, free verse,
blank verse, iambic meter, run-on line (enjambment) |
Constantly
Risking Absurdity (935); The Fifteenth Summer (937). |
|
| 13
(941) |
onomatopoeia,
euphony, cacophony |
A Fire
Truck (958) |
951-952 |
| 14
(961) |
structure,
continuous form, stanzaic form, fixed form, sonnet, sestet |
On
First Looking into Chapman's Homer (965); That Time of Year
(966); Do Not Go Gentle (968) |
|
| 15
(983) |
sentimentality,
didactic, theme, central purpose, paraphrase |
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Related Links:
Cambridge
University's lit terms online
CE9 list of poetry terms
The
Atlantic Online Poetry Pages
The
Beloit Poetry Journal
Poetry
180
Academy
of American Poetry
Modern
& Contemporary American Poetry
Poets.org's
list of journals & zines
Poets.org's
list of literary organizations online
News
and announcements about poetry
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