Mrs. Blackmer (SCHOOL)

English (HOME)

Summer 2018

Summer Work Assignment

“To analyze” poetry does NOT mean “tofind the meaning.” The meaning of a good poem is infinite,

so analysis is just a way of endlessly unpacking meaning in general.

Again, congrats folks! Following is the summer work assignment for the English 12AP class. Before we start, I want to remind you of your agreement with us: The summer work is required. If you have questions during the summer, feel free to contact me by email (above—use my home email for quick responses in the summer).By signing in at the meeting today, you are acknowledging that you understand this requirement.It’s worth about 100 points, so if you don’t get it done, you’ll be in a deep hole!

The summer assignment: You will be doing three things over the summer:

  1. Literary Terms: Study the list of literary terms (see attached pages). You should know most of them by August so that we can start using them in our discussions of “works of literary merit”!
  1. Read How to Read Poetry Like a Professor (HTRPLAP). You’ll have to buy your own copy, butif you can’t afford it, I’ll have 5 copies that you can borrow (1st come 1st served):How to Read Poetry Like a Professor: A Quippy and Sonorous Guide to Verseby Thomas C Foster.Paperback.$13.47 on Amazon.
  1. Select two poems from the “Poems Cited” list in HTRPLAP(NOT by the same poet) (pp.189-190). Analyze the poems using Foster’s instructions (this should look frightfully familiar, as in TPPCASTT and DIDLS). In order to do this, you will have to go online, print out a copy of each poem, find the following elements (a-g below), and write up each element using examples (quotes) from the poem (each poem separately):

a) Definition of a poem, and how this poem fits it (see “Interlude”)

b)Denotation/Connotation (Ch. 1, 2 & 6)

c)Rhythm, rhyme, meter (Ch 3, 4, 7)

d) Lines and enjambment (Ch. 5)

e) Speaker (Ch.8)

f) Structure(how it looks on the page) (Ch. 9, 10, 11)

g) Figurative language: symbol, imagery, motif, etc. (Ch. 12)

The first week of class, expect a quiz on how to read and analyze poetry, using a poem not on the list (so memorize the 7 rules in Ch. 1 as well as know the 7 elements to study (a-g above).

1. A Broad List of AP Literary Terms from the College Board

Elements of Style

Atmosphere

Colloquial

Connotation

Denotation

Dialogue

Dialect

Diction

Epigram

Inversion

Irony

….Dramatic

….Situational

…..Verbal

Mimesis

Mood

Paradox

Pathos

Proverb

Pun

Sarcasm

Satire

Slang

Tone

Voice

Voice

Narrative voice

….First Person

….Second Person

….Third Person

….Omniscient/Unlimited

….Objective (impartial)

….Intrusive(biased omniscient)

….Limited (one character)

….Shifting (multiple chars.)

Figurative Language

Allusion

Apostrophe

Euphemism

Hyperbole

Litotes

Meiosis

Metaphor

Metonymy

Motif

Onomatopoeia

Personification

Simile

Symbol

Synecdoche

Poetry

Alliteration

Anaphora

Assonance

Blank verse

Cacophony

Cadence

Caesura

Conceit

Connotation

Consonance

Controlling image

Couplet

Dirge

Dissonance

Dramatic monologue

Elegy

End-stopped line

Enjambment

Epic

Euphony

Foot

Form

Free verse

Iamb

Image

Imagery

In medias res

Lyric

Measure

Meter

Narrative

Octave

Ode

Pastoral

Pentameter

Persona

Quatrain

Refrain

Repetition

Rhyme

…..End

…..External

…..Feminine

…..Masculine

…..Internal

Scansion

Sestet

Sonnet

…..English

…..Italian

Speaker

Stanza/Strophe

Stress

Tercet

Trochee

Verse

Volt

SCORING CRITERIA

Assignment:English 12AP Summer Work

CRITERIA

How to Read Poetry Like a Professor / Points Possible / Teacher Score
Poem #1:
a) Foster’s Definition of a poem, and how this poem fits it (see “Interlude”)
b)Denotation/Connotation (Ch. 1, 2 & 6)
c)Rhythm, rhyme, meter (Ch 3, 4, 7)
d) Lines and enjambment (Ch. 5)
e) Speaker (Ch. 8)
f) Structure (how it looks on the page) (Ch. 9, 10, 11)
g) Figurative language: symbol, imagery, motif, etc. (Ch. 12) / 5
5
5
5
5
5
5
Poem #2:
a) Foster’s Definition of a poem, and how this poem fits it (see “Interlude”)
b)Denotation/Connotation (Ch. 1, 2 & 6)
c)Rhythm, rhyme, meter (Ch 3, 4, 7)
d) Lines and enjambment (Ch. 5)
e) Speaker (Ch. 8)
f) Structure (how it looks on the page) (Ch. 9, 10, 11)
g) Figurative language: symbol, imagery, motif, etc. (Ch. 12) / 5
5
5
5
5
5
5
TOTAL: / 70 / /70

COMMENTS: all entries should be grammatically correct, coherent, and in MLA format.