Tuesday, October 23, 2012

English I (Pre-AP): What to Know for Tomorrow's Test

The test tomorrow will be on Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays." Preview this poem online, here.

You should know these literary/grammatical devices/terms
  • Adjective
  • Adverb
  • Compare
  • Conjunction
  • Contrast
  • Declarative sentences (Statements)
  • Interrogative sentences (Questions)
  • Noun
  • Rhetorical/poetic shift
  • Verb
... and these tone/mood words:
  • Anxious
  • Appreciative
  • Ebullient
  • Indifferent
  • Menacing
  • Practical
  • Regret/regretful
  • Solemn
  • Sympathetic
... and this vocabulary:
  • Gratitude
  • Ignorant
  • Stark
  • Vivid
  • & any other word you don't understand in the poem.

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