Poetry
Poems
Seen
The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred
Tennyson.
Daybreak in Alabama by Langston Hughes
Unseen
Students will also have an unseen poem in the
exam with analysis questions to answer.
Structure (stanza) and Form (lyric, narrative,
descriptive).
Poetry elements
Figurative Devices
Lyric poems (ode, elegy, sonnet, ballad, epic).
Simile – metaphor – personification – symbolism
– anaphora – synecdoche
Word Sounds
alliteration, onomatopoeia, repetition
Drama
Play
“The Taming of the Shrew” Act I – IV
Themes
disguise – marriage – social norms
Elements of Drama
characterization / plot / conflict / soliloquy /
props / setting
Grammar
Pronoun – Antecedent agreement
Indefinite pronoun agreement
Kinds of dependent clauses
Compound subjects
Agreement Problems in Sentences
Indefinite pronouns as Subjects
Vocabulary
Students are required to understand the meanings of the following words/idioms, and how to use them in
meaningful sentences.
Inscrutable – complacent – deferential – sequester – eminent – imminent – elicit –
illicit – construe – frenzy – abate – dulcet – commendable – plethora –
can’t cut the mustard – running out of steam – to be all in the same boat
Writing
Writing a Biography
Writing a Literary Response Essay