Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Study Guide

Study.
1. Poetry, devices, form.
2. Journals, arguments.
3. Vocabulary

1. Poetry

Forms:
    Haiku
                Limerick
                Free Verse
                Ballad
                Concrete
                Lyric – sonnet, elegy, ode, villanelle
                Couplet

                Narrative

Devices:
Rhymes: slant; masculine; feminine; end; Simile; Metaphor; Personification; Symbolism; Imagery; Onomatopoeia; Alliteration; Assonance; Consonance; Allusion; Metonymy; Synecdoche; Hyperbole; Oxymoron; Allegory; Paradox; Understatement; Litotes; Irony; Caesura, Pun, Denotation, Connotation. 

2. Journals
Know the arguments and understand how LOVE can relate to/be used in each of these situations.

Sterling "...has it all", Del Villar II "Black People are Cowards", Adrienne "Christina Falling".

3. Vocabulary

Unit 14
beatific, behemoth, blandishment, cacophonous, chicanery, consign, coup, euphemism, febrile, gainsay.
imminent, innate, loath, manifest, minutiae, moratorium, nostrum, pariah, visionary, wizened.
Unit 13
abstruse, affront, canard, captious, cognizant, contrite, cynosure, decorous, deign, desiccated
efficacy, engender, ethereal, facade, ghoulish, incongruous, machination, mesmerize, opprobrium, putative
Unit 12
aesthetic, defunct, discomfit, espouse, fetish, gregarious, hapless, impeccable, importune, interpolate.
irreparable, laconic, languish, mendacious, nadir, omnipresent, perfunctory, plaintive, requite, tantamount.
Unit 11
abrogate, ambient, asperity, burnish, cabal, delectable, deprecate, detritus, ebullient, eclectic.
flaccid, impecunious, inexorable, moribund, necromancer, onerous, rife, rudiments, sequester, winnow.
Unit 10
Askance, attenuate, benign, cavil, charlatan, decimate, foible, forgo, fraught, inure.
luminous, obsequious, obtuse, oscillate, penitent, peremptory, rebuff, reconnoiter, shambles, sporadic.
Unit 9
Acclamation, bucolic, calumniate, chary, collusion, dilettante, imperturbable, increment, mandate, paltry

paroxysm, pedantry, peregrination, redolent, refulgent, shibboleth, tyro, unremitting, vacillate, vituperative

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