English 10 H Midterm Review

• 1. Looking for a lesson or moral instruction. 2) poetry is always beautiful

• 1) Intellectual 2) Senses 3)Emotion 4) Imagination

Connotation, Imagery, Metaphor, Symbol, Paradox, Irony, Allusion, Sound Repetition, Rhythm, Pattern

1: Read it more than once 2: Use a dictionary 3: Hear words in your mind 4: Pay attention to detail/what the poem is saying 5: Practice reading poems aloud with emotion (don’t force it). 6: don’t read in a specific pattern (ta-DUM-ta-DUM)

Dictionary meaning of a ward

The meaning a word invokes in a reader, not necessarily its literal meaning

1. Who is the speaker? 2. What is the occasion? 3. What is the central purpose of the poem? 4. By what means is that purpose achieved?

The speaker using first person pronouns is the poet.

You must always stay focused on the text just like how you should stay focused on the ball. You should always be mentally alert.

Comparison without using like or as. Often uses “is”

Comparison with using like or as

Giving a nonhuman entity human properties

“Downplaying” Making something seem less than what it really is

An exaggeration

The opposite of what you expect happens

Repetition of words or phrases

self-contradictory statement

The use of descriptive words to create images in the reader’s mind

Word choice

For, and, nor, but, or, yet, so

After, although, as, when, while, until, because, before, if, since

One independent clause

One independent and one dependent clause

Two independent clauses

At least two independent clauses and one dependent clause

Semicolon, semicolon + conjugative adverb, comma + FANBOYS, period + a space.

Informational, persuasive, to convey an experience