READING CHECKLIST: Poetry

READING CHECKLIST: Poetry Poet’s Full Name: Poem’s Complete Title: Date of Publication: (1) PLOT  Concise “Plot” Summary

(2) MAIN CHARACTERS name function qualities  Who is the Speaker?  Persona  Protagonist  Antagonist

POV  Omniscience  1st, 2nd, 3rd person SETTING  Location, time, era  Religion, culture, climate FORM  Sonnet, Ode  Dramatic Monologue  Elegy, Lyric STRUCTURE  Chronology, Flashback  “Switch”: shifts in time/logic  Transitions, “Road Signs” RHYME SCHEME  ABBA  Octave, Couplet METER  Beats per line  Iambic Pentameter  Blank Verse, Free Verse DICTION  Key words  With multiple meanings  Connotation vs. Denotation  Puns SOUND DEVICES  Alliteration  Assonance  Consonance  Onomatopoeia  Enjambment FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE  Similes  Metaphors  Conceit TROPES  Personification, Apostrophe  Paradox, Oxymoron  Syndoche, Metonymy  Hyperbole, Understatement  Satire, Juxtaposition  Allusion, Reference IRONY  Verbal  Dramatic  Situational TONE  Attitude of the speaker  Toward the subject IMAGERY  Sense details  evocative SYMBOLISM  Person, place, object  Deeper meaning CONFLICTS  Tension, stress, pressure  Self, person, nature, supernatural THEMES  not the “moral” (ethical)  universal messages

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POET’S WRITING STYLE  Formal/Conversational  Simple/Ornate  Tone  Subjective/Objective  Regional  Journalistic