ESSAY

Paper #3: Poetry 2-3 Pages Typed Double Spaced Standard Font and Size 

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Paper 3 is very similar to Papers 1 and 2; only now you are analyzing a work of poetry. Regardless of which poem you choose to analyze, your paper should include discussion on some of the following terms: 

1. Title 2. Emotions 3. Simile 4. Metaphor 5. Rhyme 6. Theme 7. Speaker 8. Diction 9. Tone 10.Syntax 11. Allusion 

12.Image 13.Synecdoche/metonymy 14.Personification 15.Paradox/Oxymoron 16.Symbol 17.Allegory 18.Irony 19.Onomatopoeia 20.Alliteration        21. Rhythm        22. Meter
 You may select from any of the poems from the textbook. This includes poems not read in class. You may choose to focus on one poem or on several poems. Please find a common bound in the selecting of poems though. In other words, choose several poems that show use of figures of speech, several poems with similar tones, or several poems by a single poet, for example. You might also choose to focus on the poems of Emily Dickinson, Ch. 33, or of the Harlem Renaissance, Ch. 38.  

As with the other papers, I do not want you to simply explain the meaning of the poem(s). I want you to analyze the poem(s) using some of the terms listed above. Please look at some of the sample student responses in the textbook for ideas and guidance. Also with this paper, you must cite from the text of the play you are analyzing at least two times (or 1 time from 2 poems). Then include the works cited at the bottom of your paper