An in-depth analysis. A Japanese poetic form with 5 unrhymed lines Exactly 31 syllables 5...

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Tanka

A Japanese poetic form with5 unrhymed linesExactly 31 syllables

5 syllables in lines 1 and 37 in lines 2, 4, and 5

Evokes a single image

Three Japanese Tankaby Ono Kamachi

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Author’s Background Translated into English (syllable variation) Italics Regret?

Your Task

Write a Tanka in correct form over one of the following topics. You must convey a single image. Friendship Adolescence Nature

Sonnet

English sonnet also known as Shakespearean sonnet

14 lines 3 quatrains Rhymes Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFGG 10 syllables /line (iambic pentameter)

Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?By William Shakespeare

Page 691

Author’s Background Author’s Purpose Comparison? Is this a love poem?

Your Task

Find an example of the following: Personification Assonance Repetition Alliteration Logical structure of argument Inverted language Unusual language and vocabulary

Lyric

Expresses a speaker’s emotions or thoughts

Short and musical Based on strong emotion

Heart! We Will Forget Him!By Emily Dickinson

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Author’s Background Mood Tone Heart vs. Brain Personification Word Choice

Your Task

Parody: a humorous imitation of a serious piece of literature

Write a parody of Heart! We Will Forget Him!

Metaphor

A surprising comparison Can be direct or indirect

since feeling is firstBy E.E. Cummings

page 702

Author’s Background Grammar as a metaphor Syntax Punctuation

Your Task

Create a two-column chart to track the contrast between order and emotion

Cummings ignores the rules of grammar and punctuation Put them back in—what is the effect on the

poem?

Simile

Comparison using “like” or “as” Can be extended over multiple lines

The TaxiBy Amy Lowell

Page 708

Author’s Background Mood of the poem? Diction to support the mood?

Your Task

Re-write the poem to create the opposite mood

Maintain the use of simile

Ballad

Tells a story Uses rhythm, rhymes, and repetition Refrain

Bonny Barbara AllanBy Anonymous

Page 722

Folk Ballad Purpose of the refrain What details are left out?

Your Task

This ballad is filled with the formal diction characteristic of the time period of the poem.

Re-write two of the stanzas updating the language with more modern expressions.

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