1. Poetry Exam review and practice
Friday, January 29, 2016

2. Terms to know: Onomatopoeia Point of View (1st vs. 3rd)
Theme vs. Topic/Subject
Rhyme (types)
Enjambment
Tone: Diction, Imagery, Detail (also: Mood)
Narrative vs. Lyric Poem
Alliteration, Assonance, Consonance, Repetition
Meter and Rhythm
Personification
Pronoun and Antecedent

3. POV

4. Onomatopoeia
Examples: Boom! Hiss! Thud. Pop! Pow! Meow… etc. The word attempts to recreate the sound.

5. Theme Must always be expressed as a complete sentence!
It is ABOUT a topic or subject: one abstract word. It is not the word itself.
Poem: “Sonnet 18”
TOPICS/SUBJECTS: Love, eternity, the power of writing, etc.
THEME: Both love and poetry will stand the test of time.

6. Other terms:
Poetry Terms PowerPoint

7. Poems We Have Studied: “The Road Not Taken” “The Witch” “Sonnet 18”
Excerpts from: “The Hippopotamus”; Shakespeare’s The Tempest

8. Excerpts
Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea change Into something rich and strange. Sea nymphs hourly ring his knell; Ding-dong Hark! Now I hear them – Ding-dong, bell.

9. Excerpts
I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, Because if I use leaden ones his hide is sure to flatten ‘em.

10. Summarizing the Poems Do we understand what they are about?
Do we see the devices within them to analyze?