When writing the take-home test, I expect your answers to the poetry questions to reflect fluency with poetic terms you have learned throughout the year, as well as the following terms specifically:extended metaphor
dramatic framework
allusion
rhetorical stress
figurative language
3 types of irony
paradox
lesson or moral of poem
thought or main idea of poem
speaker
occasion
persona
voice
Here is a link to a Glossary of Poetic Terms: http://www.poeticbyway.com/glossary.html
The following poems will be included:
Owen - Dulce Et Decorum Est p. 7
Frost - Acquainted With the Night p.256
Eliot - Journey of the Magi p.145
Milton - On His Blindness p.140-141
Shelley - Ozymandias p. 121
Your analysis should include an accurate interpretation of meaning, as well as references to poetic terms and devices used in the poem.
DATE: 4/10/08 DUE: 4/14/08
The test will be given to you on Thursday 4/10/08.
It will be due on our first day of class after the break 4/14/08.
You will be writing three-four essays.
The test will be given to you on Thursday 4/10/08.
It will be due on our first day of class after the break 4/14/08.
You will be writing three-four essays.
Please time yourself as you write and notate your time after each essay.
4 comments:
Hi! Quick question: Can I use pieces from interpretations of poetry that I've read on the internet if I cite them?
Megan,
I'd rather have you stick to a personal response; it's more in keeping with the structure of the exam.
So, this is due the 21st, right? First day after break? Not first day after the weekend? I hope? And are you expecting an extremely well-polished essay or something similar to the AP essays?
Spencer-
It's due the 21st.
Our first day back is an even day.
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