Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Poetry Unit: Quiz

Friday, you will take the poetry unit quiz.

What should you know?

The Complete Writing Process: brainstorming/generating ideas, composing a first draft, editing, revision (drafting), publication.

1. How to begin a poem
2. Imagery: the five senses, simile, personification, metaphor, allusion, universal images or symbols.
3. Figurative language
4. Diction, tone, connotation, denotation
4. Elements of sound: onomatopoeia, assonance, consonance, alliteration, euphony, cacophony, liquids, mutes, vowels, consonants
5. Line: length (short vs. long), metrical lines (particularly pentameter, tetrameter, and alexandrine.) Iamb, trochee, dactyl, anapest, spondee, caesura, enjambment, stanza
6. Meter & prosody
7. Open form; Closed form
8. Lyric, narrative, free verse 

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About this course!

This course stresses understanding the characteristics & techniques in the literary genres of fiction, poetry, and dramatic writing. This course will continue to build on students’ reading and writing skills begun in previous creative writing classes. Readings and discussions of works by major writers in the field will be examined as inspiration and models of fine writing. This educational blog is designed for the use of the students at the School of the Arts in Rochester, NY.