Poetry Quiz II

We will have our second poetry quiz Monday 10/4 (50 pts.). This will be mainly a multiple choice exercise, and you will need to know the following terms to do well on it:

Assonance
Alliteration
Synesthesia
Onomatopoeia
Ceasura
Rhyme
Meter
Tone
Consonance

The link I posted earlier will help, as will the glossary of terms on p. 1660 of Perrine's. Re-reading chapters 10-13 won't hurt either.

Poetry Quiz #1

We will have our first poetry quiz on Tuesday 9/28 (50 pts.). This will be mainly a multiple choice exercise, and you will need to know the following terms to do well on it:

Simile
Apostrophe
Metaphor
Personification
Metonymy
Allusion
Paradox

The link I posted earlier will help, as will the glossary of terms on p. 1660 of Perrine's. Re-reading chapters five and seven won't hurt either.

Poetry Paper #1

Using the suggestions on page 8 of “Writing about Literature” in Perrine’s, write a paper comparing and contrasting any two poems in the poetry section of the text. (pp 647-1024) Although neither is a comparison/contrast essay, reading the sample papers on pp 46-52 might be helpful. This paper should be a minimum of 500 words, typed and double-spaced. We are going to workshop this paper, so you need to keep to the following schedule:

Poems and topic of paper selected and e-mailed to me – Monday 9/20
Thesis and outline of paper – Thursday 9/24
First draft of paper – Monday 9/27
Second draft – Wednesday 9/29
Final draft – Friday 10/1

Poetic Terms Site

Bookmark the site below and refer to it regularly throughout the remainder of the unit.

http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/glossary_of_poetic_terms.htm

Poetry Reading Assignemt

The poetry section of Perrine's begins on page 645 and is divided into 16 chapters. Each of those chapters consists of anywhere from 3-9 pages of introductory/explanatory narrative (with a few poems included as examples), a textbox with the heading "REVIEWING CHAPTER ____", and several pages of poems and critical reading questions. By Wednesday September 15 you need to have read the narrative parts of each of those chapters. You should read and consider the poems included as examples, but you do not need to answer the questions or read any of the poems that appear at the end of the respective chapters.