Thursday, April 28, 2016

Thurs. Apr. 28, 2016: Test Prep

Today, I provided some important information about tomorrow's poetry exam. I am pasting this information below. Please keep in mind that, if you miss this exam, you will have to write an alternative.


Poetry Test: Test Prep Sheet

 In order to do well on the upcoming exam, you will need to study and apply the steps to reading poetry. On an exam, I will NOT mark you on questions, summary, purpose or topic so you will NOT need to demonstrate these. I WILL mark you on title analysis, rhyme scheme, stanzas, lines, punctuation highlight, layout anomaly identification, highlighting unknown words (though you will not be able to look them up; it still helps with identification), and highlighting and defining literary devices.
You will also need to know the following literary devices from your literary devices sheet:
                       
Allusion                                               Assonance                               Alliteration
Euphemism                                         Irony                                       Foreshadowing
Hyperbole                                           Imagery                                   Metaphor
Onomatopoeia                                     Oxymoron                               Personification
Pathetic fallacy                                   Repetition                               Rhetorical question Simile                                                      Symbolism                              Synecdoche    

In addition, some of the following words may be unfamiliar to you (if they are, look them up and study them within the context of sentences):

quatrains                     
couplets
cinquains        
the five senses
parallel (structure)                                          
reinforces
perception                                                      
monotony
resolve                                                            
emphasis
register                                                           
figurative/literal language
tone                                                                
remorseful                              

anxious

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