Hi Class,

Today we will continue to explore poetry and special vocabulary to help us read more deeply.

–7 Poetry Terms: Explication, Denotation, Connotation, Personification, Alliteration, Assonance, Consonance—The definitions are in Notepad.

–Three October Poems

–HOMEWORK: Read Whitman (only “Manahatta”), Roethke and Spahr (both poems are on the same handout). In your notebook explore one example of each of these terms: assonance and alliteration and consonance.