Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Poetry Unit Quiz

Thursday, you will take the poetry unit test.

What should you know?

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

How to begin a poem
Imagery: the five senses, simile, personification, metaphor, allusion, universal images or symbols.
Figurative language
Elements of sound: onomatopoeia, assonance, consonance, alliteration, euphony, cacophony,
Line: length, metrical lines (particularly pentameter, tetrameter, and alexandrine.) Iamb, trochee, dactyl, anapest, spondee, caesura, enjambment stanza
Meter
Open form; Closed form

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