Last Two Classes

Today, work on completing your final portfolio.

You should be familiar and able to define the following literary terms:
Poetry: denotation, connotation, allusion, symbol, metaphor, simile, allegory, line breaks in poetry, consonants, vowels, white space, euphony, cacophony, alliteration, onomatopoeia, consonance, assonance, pentameter, trimeter, octameter, couplet, closed form, open form, iambic, prosody, caesura, enjambment, rhythm, lyric poem, cliché, free verse, negative capability, inversion, persona, diction, sestina form, haiku, villanelle, confessional poetry, pastoral, ode, elegy, sonnet, etc.

fiction: protagonist, antagonist, regional writer, characterization, crisis, denouement, exposition, foil, flat character, plot, interior, exterior, climax, locale, major/minor characters, 3rd person - omniscient, 3rd person - limited, 2nd person, 1st person, plot structure, anti-hero, dynamic character, inciting incident, drama, conflict and its types, farce, parody, black comedy, satire, various types of comedy

plays/film: beat, scene, act, stage directions, act, creating a dramatic situation, the unities, major dramatic question, actors, basic film shots, mise-en-scene, diegesis, high key/low key lighting

Authors: Woody Allen, Margaret Atwood, Tennessee Williams, Ray Bradbury, Alfred Uhry, Marsha Norman, Ernest Hemingway, Robert Frost, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Anton Chekhov, H.P. Lovecraft, Allen Ginsberg, T.S. Eliot

You should be able to explain in detail the writing process and various techniques to craft your fiction, poetry, and play/scripts.

Final exam Thursday. All missing work must be in by then for this marking period.