We are in test prep mode. Reading poetry (of all types) is always good, and April is National Poetry Month! You can review great poems on www.poets.org and on www.poetryfoundation.org. They have poems, information on the authors and other resources. But, I definitely want you to know these 10 poems (KNOW the poems, understand them, be prepared to write about and/or discuss them in depth):
- “A Prayer for My Daughter,” by William Butler Yeats
- “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning,” John Donne
- “The World is Too Much with Us,” By William Wordsworth
- “The Bistro Styx,” By Rita Dove
- “When I Consider How My Light is Spent,” John Milton
- “One Art,” by Elizabeth Bishop
- “Dover Beach,” By Matthew Arnold
- “Blackberry Picking,” by Seamus Heaney
- “Dulce Et Decorum Est,” By Wilfred Owen
- “Lady Lazarus,” By Sylvia Plath
And this is the list of words / literary phrases that you need to know and be able to identify:
- Allegory
- Alliteration
- Allusion
- Anachronism
- Anaphora
- Antithesis
- Apostrophe
- Archetype
- Aside
- Assonance
- Blank Verse
- Bildungsroman
- Conceit
- Didactic
- Chiasmus
- Elegy
- Enjambment
- Ennui
- Euphemism
- Foil
- Metonymy
- Motif
- Oxymoron
- Paradox
- Parallelism
- Sonnet
- Spondee
- Synecdoche
- Villanelle
- Zeugma
Note: If you have not already done so, this is a good time to begin reviewing for the AP exam. Take out your review books and look over the testing information. You are not just looking for the structure of the test, but familiarizing yourself with how to answer questions, what the questions are asking and also learning more poems and reviewing passages from books you have not read. If you want suggestions of plays or books to read, here are some: Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie (both plays by Tennessee Williams), Our Town by Thornton Wilder, Catch-22 By Joseph Heller, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
apliteraturemlec 