Warmup:  Write an original sentence using each of the following VOCAB words

• Adulturate
• Dour
• Insidious
• Stolid

 

QUIZ FRIDAY:  What’s covered?

• All Poetic Devices terms that we’ve covered (consult blog posts here, your class notes).
• Format:  Some multiple choice, some short answer.
• Our fatal errors from last week (Capitalization, apostrophe usage)
• 25 points.

LEARNING TARGETS

After reading the following articles you should be able to define the following terms

1. Poetic Structure
2. Rhyme Scheme

and these related terms

• stanza
• Line
• Types of rhyme
  • End rhyme
  • Internal rhyme
  • True rhyme
  • Off rhyme
  • Rhyme scheme
• Be able to explain how/why poets use the above devices/techniques (what is the purpose).

Literary Devices