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Here is a list of items you should begin to know for your final on the POETRY UNIT:

Things you should start studying for the POETRY test:
Elements: Know both definitions and examples
Imagery, denotation, connotation, irony – verbal, situational, dramatic, sarcasm, metaphor, personification, metonymy, apostrophe, synecdoche, symbol, allegory, paradox, overstatement, understatement, allusion, tone, alliteration, assonance, consonance, internal rime, slant rime, end rime, approximate rime, refrain, meter, iamb, trochee, anapest, dactyl, spondee, monosyllabic foot, line, stanza

Forms:
Structure, line breaks, how the poem looks, rhyme and rhythm and how it is created
Blues, Sestina, Villanelle, Pantoum, Sonnet (English, Italian, Spenserian, and others?), haiku, quatrain, tercets, couplets, litany, ballad, aubade, elegy, etc.

Poems:
“Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” “Home Burial” “Death of the Hired Man” “The Flea” “My Last Duchess” “The Wastelands” “To His Coy Mistress” and others as we discuss this week and next week.