1. Poetry from the Anthology: Literary Terms
Pages provide definitions and models of various literary terms. Some of these are review and very useful, some are new and useful, and some are very advanced (and therefore less useful in ninth grade). If you love poetry or have a gap here, take a closer look!
Traditional form
Petrarchan sonnet
Shakesperean sonnet
quatrain
couplet
Speaker
Organic form
free verse
Sound devices
Repetition
Alliteration
Assonance
Consonance
Meter
Foot
Iamb
Trochee
Spondee
Trimeter
Tetrameter
Pentameter
Imagery and figurative language
Diction
Imagery
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Hyperbole

2. Goals: Roethke, Lee, & Dove
Goals: to review/learn poetic literary terms and use them in comprehension, to analyze imagery, and to evaluate lyric poetry (page 749)
These CATs (page 754) are homework -
Comprehension = # 4
Analysis = # 6
Thinking Critically = #7 (add your judgment too)
Include a correctly formatted Works Cited for these poems in this anthology. Don’t forget to alphabetize.

3. Goals: Robert Frost
Goals: to review/learn poetic literary terms and use them in comprehension, to analyze dramatic monologue, and to evaluate meter (page 793)
These CATs (page 797) are homework -
Comprehension = # 8
Analysis = # 7
Thinking Critically = #10 (add your judgment too)
Include a correctly formatted Works Cited for this poem in this anthology.

4. Goals: Emily Dickinson
Goals: to review/learn poetic literary terms and use them in comprehension (page 869), to analyze extended metaphor, and to evaluate Dickinson’s style
These CATs (page 873) are homework -
Comprehension = # 4
Analysis = # 5
Thinking Critically = #6 (add your judgment too)
Include a correctly formatted Works Cited for these poems in this anthology.

5. Goals: Nikki Giovanni
Goals: to review/learn poetic literary terms and use them in comprehension, to analyze word choice, and to evaluate Giovanni’s style (page 875)
These CATs (page 879) are homework -
Comprehension = # 3
Analysis = # 5
Thinking Critically = #6 or 8 (add your judgment too)
Include a correctly formatted Works Cited for these poems in this anthology.

6. Goals: McKay & Hughes
Goals: to review/learn poetic literary terms and use them in comprehension, to analyze effects of sound, and to evaluate a poem in light of biographical context (page 983)
These CATs (page 989) are homework -
Comprehension = # 10
Analysis = # 9
Thinking Critically = #11 (add your judgment too)
Include a correctly formatted Works Cited for these poems in this anthology.

7. Goals: Basho, Wright, & Naparstek
Goals: to review/learn poetic literary terms and use them in comprehension, to analyze the value of haiku as a poetic form, and to evaluate personification (page 991)
These CATs (page 995) are homework -
Comprehension = # 7
Analysis = # 8
Thinking Critically = #6 (add your judgment too)
Include a correctly formatted Works Cited for these poems in this anthology.