Almost all requirements of the sonnet project should be typed, and each requirement on a new page. Exceptions include marking rhyme scheme and meter and highlighting and labeling figurative language and sound devices on typed copies of the poem. Provide one double-spaced copy of the sonnet with lines numbered. On another typed copy, mark the rhyme scheme and identify sonnet type (Italian, English, etc.). On another typed copy, mark the meter (include foot divisions). Vocabulary type the definitions of important word in the sonnet (20 words minimum). – Paraphrase - restate the poem simply, sentence by sentence and type your version. Answer journalistic questions: who? what? when? where? why? and type a paragraph relaying author background. On another typed copy, highlight and label all figures of speech and literary devices (metaphors, conceit, simile, personification, irony, pun, paradox, oxymoron, etc.) Complete a device to meaning chart for at least two of your examples. On another typed copy, highlight and label all sound devices (assonance, alliteration, consonance, euphony, cacophony, etc.). Complete a device to meaning chart for at least two devices identified. Write a paragraph in which you identify and analyze two tones in the poem and identify the turn. [Use your Yellow Pages for help with tone words. Be sure to use quotations from the poem to support your choices.] In a chart, record a full introduction, at least two topic sentences, and list evidence for support. Include a copy of any other poem that conveys the same theme as your sonnet. Design your folder cover with a collage of images to represent the theme of your sonnet. Oral presentation Introduction Reading of one poem Transition Reading of the second poem Dress in style” for our Poetry “beatnik coffee and presentation day. Sonnet Study Essential Vocabulary vessel, the sonnet form, actually becomes a part of the meaning of the poem.” Thomas C. Foster “The Sonnet Types: Italian/Petrarchan English/Shakespearean
Almost all requirements of the sonnet project should be typed, and each requirement on a new page. Exceptions include marking rhyme scheme and meter and highlighting and labeling figurative language and sound devices on typed copies of the poem. Provide one double-spaced copy of the sonnet with lines numbered. On another typed copy, mark the rhyme scheme and identify sonnet type (Italian, English, etc.). On another typed copy, mark the meter (include foot divisions). Vocabulary – type the definitions of important word in the sonnet (20 words minimum). Paraphrase - restate the poem simply, sentence by sentence and type your version. Answer journalistic questions: who? what? when? where? why? and type a paragraph relaying author background. On another typed copy, highlight and label all figures of speech and literary devices (metaphors, conceit, simile, personification, irony, pun, paradox, oxymoron, etc.) Complete a device to meaning chart for at least two of your examples. On another typed copy, highlight and label all sound devices (assonance, alliteration, consonance, euphony, cacophony, etc.). Complete a device to meaning chart for at least two devices identified. Write a paragraph in which you identify and analyze two tones in the poem and identify the turn. [Use your Yellow Pages for help with tone words. Be sure to use quotations from the poem to support your choices.] In a chart, record a full introduction, at least two topic sentences, and list evidence for support. Include a copy of any other poem that conveys the same theme as your sonnet. Design your folder cover with a collage of images to represent the theme of your sonnet. Oral presentation Introduction Reading of one poem Transition Reading of the second poem Dress in “beatnik style” for our Poetry coffee and presentation day. Sonnet Study Essential Vocabulary “The vessel, the sonnet form, actually becomes a part of the meaning of the poem.” Thomas C. Foster Sonnet Types: Italian/Petrarchan English/Shakespearean
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