1: Read it more than once 2: Use a dictionary 3: Hear words in your mind 4: Pay attention to detail/what the poem is saying 5: Practice reading poems aloud with emotion (don’t force it). 6: don’t read in a specific pattern (ta-DUM-ta-DUM)
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**Denotative**
**Dictionary meaning of a ward**
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**Connotative**
**The meaning a word invokes in a reader, not necessarily its literal meaning**
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4 Questions to ask yourself while reading a poem
1\. Who is the speaker? 2. What is the occasion? 3. What is the central purpose of the poem? 4. By what means is that purpose achieved?
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An error by readers is to assume
The speaker using first person pronouns is the poet.
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**Tennis, Poetry Analogy**
You must always stay focused on the text just like how you should stay focused on the ball. You should always be mentally alert.
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Metaphor
Comparison without using like or as. Often uses “is”
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Similie
Comparison with using like or as
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Personification
Giving a nonhuman entity human properties
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Understatement
“Downplaying” Making something seem less than what it really is
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Hyperbole
An exaggeration
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Irony
The opposite of what you expect happens
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Alliteration
Repetition of words or phrases
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Paradox
self-contradictory statement
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Imagery
The use of descriptive words to create images in the reader’s mind
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Diction
Word choice
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What are the main coordinating conjunctions (FANBOYS)?
For, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
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What are the main subordinating conjunctions (AAAWWUBBIS)?
After, although, as, when, while, until, because, before, if, since
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What does a simple sentence contain?
One independent clause
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What does a complex sentence contain?
One independent and one dependent clause
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What does a compound sentence contain?
Two independent clauses
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What does a compound-complex sentence contain?
At least two independent clauses and one dependent clause
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What are the four ways to connect independent clauses?
Semicolon, semicolon + conjugative adverb, comma + FANBOYS, period + a space.
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What are the three uses for language?
Informational, persuasive, to convey an experience
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