Friday, October 18, 2013

Intervention; Modules 0 & 1 Due; End of Marking Period

Looking at the work still left to do on elearning, please use your time in the lab to complete these assignments.

For students who need direct instruction, please join me next door in room 238 to walk you through the assignments and answer your many questions about poetry. We will be covering:

  • The writing process
  • Where to find help!
  • The difference between poetry (verse) and prose
  • How to break a line in poetry to create a pattern
  • Meter & rhythm
  • Free verse and pattern poems (open versus closed forms)
  • Tone/Mood
  • Diction
  • The speaker in a poem (character)
  • Voice & persona
  • Theme & message
  • denotation & connotation
  • Sound devices: onomatopoeia, alliteration, assonance
  • Vowels/consonants
  • Ars poetica
  • Revising a poem
  • Common imagery: metaphor, simile, allusion, personification, figurative language

HOMEWORK: Please READ and highlight the important advice or vocabulary terms in the chapter on SOUND and the chapter on IMAGERY. You will turn in your copies of your chapters for credit. I need to see that you are reading and working with these concepts.

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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.