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Overview: How do characters reveal their perspectives and biases in this poem?
Character drives literature, both in poems and in longer works of prose. In poems, a character may be the speaker, the audience to whom the speaker addresses the poem, a person alluded to in the poem, and so on. The values, beliefs, assumptions, biases, and cultural norms conveyed by these speakers is reflected in the words, details, and organization, decisions, and actions they make within the poem. As always, we ask the fundamental question: How does the character reveal themselves in this poem? |
Overview: What is the Structure DOING in the Poem?
We can think of structure as the "shape" of a poem. A sonnet usually looks like a square. A haiku usually has three brief lines. A modernist poem by e.e. cummings could take almost any shape, but is often spread out over the page, words breaking in unconventional places, with unexpected parentheses and dashes. The poem's shape is part of its essential "architecture." If a poet chooses to break a line in a particular place, why did they do that? Why did they separate the line there and not elsewhere? Why did they choose to write in the sonnet form or the haiku at all? As always, we ask the fundamental question: What is the structure DOING? How is the structure helping the poet convey the meaning of the poem? |
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS FOR STRUCTURE
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ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS: What is the structure DOING?
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Sample Free-Response Questions About Structure
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SAMPLE STRUCTURE QUESTIONS ON FRQ 1
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ESSENTIAL QUESTION: What is the figurative language DOING?
PROMINENT FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE TOOLS
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Sample Free-Response Prompts About Figurative Language
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SAMPLE FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE QUESTIONS ON FRQ 1
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