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Advanced Placement Poetry:

This article delves into the essence of poetry, discussing its various types, characteristics, and literary devices. It provides insights into how poets use language and devices to convey emotions and reveal themes in their works.

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Advanced Placement Poetry:

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  1. Advanced Placement Poetry: Reading and Analysis

  2. “Poetry provides the one permissible way to say one thing and mean another.”--Robert Frost Poetry: Rhythmical composition of words expressing an attitude, designed to surprise and delight, and to arouse emotional response or to express imaginative and intense perceptions of the world, its own people, and interrelationships between the two. Poetry deals with emotion. It presents the emotions of the poet as they are aroused by some scene, some experience, some attachment. It is often rich in sentiment and passion. A major characteristic of poetry, which distinguishes itself from prose, is the presence of rhythm. Poetry can be classified into three great type divisions: Epic, Dramatic, and Lyric.

  3. Imagery Denotation Connotation Hyperbole Understatement Irony Dramatic Verbal Situational Paradox Simile Metaphor Personification Apostrophe Symbol Allusion Tone MAJOR Poetry Terms / Devices

  4. SPLOTTS • Subject (1-2 words—what is the poem about) • Paraphrase (each sentence in your own words) • Language (consider important language employed, including figurative language) • Occasion (what is happening and where, as well as organization of the lines) • Tone (How the writer feels about the subject. 3 tone words) • Theme (One clear sentence that tells what the speaker says about the subject) • Speaker (Identify who is narrating the poem)

  5. And Then? Once you have completed the work of SPLOTTS, select one literary device that the poem uses heavily, and then write a well-developed paragraph explaining how the poet uses that device to reveal a theme in the poem.

  6. SPLOTTS • S • P • L • O • T • T • S

  7. A New Formula: Writing About Literature in an AP English Essay • Introduction—two sentences, begin answering the prompt from the very start! And, incorporate an analysis of tone AND theme. • Body Paragraphs: Topic Sentence, Concrete Detail1, Commentary1, Commentary1, Concrete Detail2, Commentary2, Commentary2, Concluding Sentence. • Conclusion—All commentary, reflecting on the thematic issues connecting all CDs & CMs.

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