POETRY: STUFF YOU NEED TO KNOW

Poetic terms in the book--pages 11-20

Diction:

• Connotation vs. Denotation

Figurative Language:

• Literal vs. figurative
• metaphor
• simile
• personification
• allusion
• symbol--note difference between public & contextual symbol
• rhyme
• alliteration
• assonance
• rhythm
• imagery

Terms from questions on p.17-19:

• speaker & audience
• setting
• theme
• POV
• structure & shift
• response

General Literary Terms still in effect for poetry:

• tone
• mood

Poems we will definitely read & discussion, assuming time allows:
"When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer"
"Richard Cory"
* "The Journey"
* "Wild Geese"
"Not Waving But Drowning"
"Those Winter Sundays"
* Let Evening Come"
"We Wear the Mask" & * Eleanor Rigby"

Frost:

• "Birches"
• "After Apple Picking"
• "Design"

Emily Dickinson

• "I heard a Fly buzz--when I died"
• "Apparently with no surprise"
• "Much Madness is divinest Sense"