Poetry Prep

Poetry term 4-squares were due at the beginning of the period today. After I checked them, we went through each term, one-by-one, discussing it and sharing examples of it. You are responsible for all 29 poetry terms:

1.Alliteration
2.Assonance
3.Consonance
4.onomatopoeia
5.End rhyme
6.couplet
7.Meter
8.accent
9.Rhythm
10.Scansion
11.Rhyme scheme
12.Stanza
13.Caesura
14.cacophony

15.simile
16.metaphor
17.oxymoron
18.personification
19.tone
20.mood
21.figurative language
22.Irony
23.Imagery
24.symbol
25.Connotation
26.Denotation
27.Hyperbole
28.Speaker
29.theme

After the poetry terms we briefly analyzed a poem.

Homework: work on choosing and acquiring an outside reading book (due next Wednesday!)