Tracking My Knowledge
Unit 2: Poetry
Name: _____________________________________________
Unit Skills
I’ve got it! – Checklist
Use this checklist to evaluate your progress throughout this unit. Only mark off the bulleted points as you feel
you have mastered them. You should be able to identify, define and find these devices, theories and elements in
a site text to consider them ‘mastered.’
Literary Elements
o Allegory
o Alliteration
o Allusion
o Anaphora
o Antithesis
o Assonance
o Atmosphere
o Connotation
o Couplet
o Denotation
o Diction
o Figurative Language
o Genre
o Hyperbole
o Imagery
o Irony
o Juxtaposition
o Metaphor
o Monologue (Dramatic)
o Onomatopoeia
o Oxymoron
o Parallel Structure
o Parody
o Paradox
o Personification
o Plot
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Point of View
Pun
Repetition
Rhyme
Formal Writing Elements:
o Thesis Statement
o Essay Outline
o Introduction
o Body Paragraphs
o Integrating Quotations
o Quoting Poetry
o Conclusion
o Review
o Voice
o Formal Tone
o Analysis
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Poetry Elements (DRIFT)*
o Diction
o Rhyme and Rhythm
o Imagery
o Form
o Tone and Theme
*Be prepared to take a test on these elements
Themes
o Suffering
o Self Discovery
o Decision-Making
o Betrayal
o Role of Women
o Power
o Portrayal of Class
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Poetic Forms:
o Free Verse
o Sonnet
o Concrete
o Epic
o Narrative
o Lyric
o Ballad
o Elegy
o Dramatic Monologue
Summative Assessment:
o DRIFT test: Mon. Oct. 24th
o Dramatic Readings
Presentation: Mon. Oct. 31st
Handouts will be distributed in class
o Rhythm
o Satire
o Simile
o Speaker
o Soliloquy
o Stanza
o Symbol/Symbolism
o Theme
o Tone
ENG3UI – Unit 2 Knowledge Tracking Sheet
Poems
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“Ode to Autumn” – John Keats (vp. 230)
“Mother to Son” – Langston Hughes (package)
“A Work of Artifice” – Marge Piercy (package)
“The Lesson” – Maya Angelou (package)
“The Profile of Africa” – Maxine Tynes (vp. 258)
“The Landlady” – Margaret Atwood (rp. 164)
“The Trees” – Philip Larkin (rp. 168)
“Somewhere I have Never Travelled” –E.E.
Cummings (rp. 172)
Sonnet 8 – William Shakespeare (package)
Sonnet 15 – William Shakespeare (package)
“Out, Out” – Robert frost (vp. 268)
“The Job of an Apple” – Ronna Bloom (vp. 270)
Reference Points = rp. Viewpoints = vp.
Reference Points
Elements Glossary p. 387
Common Poetic Forms p. 182
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Weekly Tracking Form
At the end of each week, you will submit your tracking sheet. Record the date and identify the skills you know,
are struggling with, and what I can do to help.
Date
Example:
Oct. 14th
I learned easily…
Allusion, Assonance,
Metaphor, Conflict
ENG3UI – Unit 2 Knowledge Tracking Sheet
I’m still struggling with…
Point of View
I cannot differentiate between 1st
person and 3rd
I still don’t understand the
differences between the three types
of irony.
You can help me by…
Providing more examples in class
and using a different source to
explain.
I’m a visual learner.
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