Poetry

A paragraph that explains the difference between denotation and connotation.

Short-answer questions on simile, metaphor, personification, apostrophe, and metonymy.

Define and give examples of five kinds of figurative language.

Short-answer questions on symbol and allegory.

Explain symbol and how it differs from allegory.

Short-answer questions on paradox, overstatement, understatement, and irony.

Define irony and explain its three kinds.

Identify the figure of speech in each quoted line.

Short-answer questions on imagery and its kinds.

A paragraph on the central imagery of Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays."

Short-answer questions on alliteration, assonance, consonance, and rime.

Short-answer questions on rhythm, meter, feet, and scansion.