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Poetry Study Guide

Please use this guide to keep track of info on this units poets and vocabulary!

Anne Bradstreet
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Edgar Allan Poe

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Walt Whitman
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Poetry Style (themes, topics, rhyming, meter, etc.): Notable Works: Anything else:

T.S. Eliot
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Emily Dickinson
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Langston Hughes
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Maya Angelou
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Sylvia Plath
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Notable Works: Anything else:

Robert Frost
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E.E. Cummings
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Joy Harjo
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Sherman Alexie
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Poetry Terms
Rhyme Definition: Examples: 1. 2. Alliteration Definition: Examples: 1. 2. Assonance Definition: Examples: 1. 2. Consonance Definition: Examples: 1. 2. Apostrophe Definition: Examples: 1. 2. Hyperbole Definition: Examples:

1. 2. Repetition Definition: Examples: 1. 2. Stanza Definition: Examples: 1. 2. Couplet Definition: Examples: 1. 2. Symbol Definition: Examples: 1. 2. Theme Definition: Examples: 1. 2. Iambic Pentameter Definition:

Examples: 1. 2. Imagery Definition: Examples: 1. 2. Metaphor Definition: Examples: 1. 2. Simile Definition: Examples: 1. 2. Personification Definition: Examples: 1. 2. Allusion Definition: Examples: 1. 2.