SUMMER ASSIGNMENT TWO – THE POETRY PORTFOLIO
A poetry notebook/portfolio must be compiled and bound in any fashion you choose. You may elect to do this
assignment with another member of the AP Class. This will be collected the first day of school in August.
Please include a Works Cited (MLA) at the end of the notebook/portfolio, listing all the source materials utilized
to compile the project. As usual, please be very wary of on-line sources; scrutinize them carefully. No need to
annotate the sources. Do not use Internal Documentation. I expect that most of the material will be copied from
literary anthologies and handbooks.
SECTION A: For each of the following Western Poetic Schools, list the major poets and the titles of their
poems. Some of the authors could be unknown or anonymous. You must use a dictionary of literary terms, a
Norton Anthology or a variety of literary anthologies like a Bedford or a Riverside.
-Old English/Later Old English
-Renaissance
-Romanticism
-Modernism
-Anglo-Norman and Middle English Period (British)
-Neo-Classicism
-Victorian
-Post-Modernism
SECTION B: Define the following poetic genres and list any pertinent conventions of the genre. Again, use a
dictionary of literary terms or anthologies for assistance. Provide a sample poem that typifies each genre (if the
poem is lengthy, a stanza or 10 to 20 lines will be sufficient). Poetry samples must be gleaned from the masters
of American, British or World Literature.
-Lyric
-English Sonnet
-Idyll
-Narrative
-Dramatic Monologue
-Villanelle
-Ode
-Epic
-Prose Poem
-Blank Verse
-Limerick
-Haiku
-Italian Sonnet
-Elegy
-Light Verse
-Free Verse
-Ballad
-Pastoral
SECTION C: Define the following poetic terms concerning meter, rhyme and diction. Provide one or two lines
from a poem in order to demonstrate each device. At times an entire stanza will be required.
-Verse
-Meter and Types
-Foot and Types
-Scansion
-Stanza
-Rhyme Scheme
-Feminine Rhyme
-Ellision
-Consonance
-Euphony
-Cacophony
-Couplet
-Terza Rima
-End-Stopped Line
-Enjambment
-Quatrain
-Internal Rhyme
-End Rhyme
-Allusion
-Anaphora
-Hyperbaton
-Antimeria
-Conceit
-Tercet
-Masculine Rhyme
-Assonance
-Half Rhyme (Slant Rhyme)