Inference
A conclusion reached based on evidence and reasoning.
What is an inference?
You circle ____ while annotating a poem.
What are literary elements?
Sensory images contained in or evoked by a text. It can be figurative or directly described.
What is Imagery?
The poetic device used in the excerpt of the poem “Shaving” by Richard Blanco.
“how my beard is a creation of silent labor
like ocean steam rising to from clouds,
or the bloom of spiderwebs each morning;”
What is Simile?
A character that remains unchanged throughout the course of a narrative.
What is a Static Character?
The first step in making an inference.
What is identifying the question you want to answer?
After reading the poem, this is what the bottom white space is used for.
What is brainstorming an outline?
Refers to a narrative that starts in the middle of the plot as opposed to its exposition.
What is “In Media Res?”
When a line of poetry continues onto the next line without any punctuation.
What is Enjambment?
The act of contrasting two objects or images side by side and studying the effects of this contrast.
What is Juxtaposition?
The second step in making an inference.
What is looking for context clues?
This side of the poem is used to write down inferences and interpretations.
What is the right side?
Blood and wolves are examples of a ______ in the novel Dracula.
What is Symbol?
A pause within a line of poetry, indicated by punctuation.
What is Caesura?
The arrangement of words in a line of poetry or in a sentence of prose.
What is Syntax?
Make an inference for the situation:
A group of tourists got pulled over on the islands by the police.
What is they were getting robbed/the police was robbing them?
It is recommended to read a poem at least 3 times to be able to understand it. This skill is used to reduce that time.
What is annotating?
The literary device used in the excerpt of the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.
“Like Adam, I was apparently united by no link to any other being in existence; but his state was far different from mine in every other respect. He had come forth from the hands of God a perfect creature, happy and prosperous, guarded by the especial care of his Creator; he was allowed to converse with and acquire knowledge from beings of a superior nature, but I was wretched, helpless, and alone.”
What is Allusion?
The poetic device used in the excerpt of the poem “The Man with the Saxophone” by Ai
“I’m the unencumbered bird of my imagination,
rising only to fall back
toward concrete
each note a black flower”
What is Metaphor?
This poem by Basho is an example of ____ type of poetry.
“On a withered branch
A crow has alighted;
Nightfall in autumn.”
What is Closed Form Poetry/Haiku?
If you don’t have ______, you cannot make an inference.
What is background information?
While interpreting a poem it is important to recognize the different poetic devices found in the poem. This poetic device is the repetition of vowel or diphthong sounds in one or more words found close together.
What is assonance?
The literary device used in the excerpt of the poem “XIV” by Derek Walcott.
“Sunset would threaten us as we climbed closer
To her house up the asphalt hill road, whose yam vines”
What is Personification?
The rhythmic pattern that is used in the opening passage of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.
“Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.”
What is iambic pentameter?
This stanza from the poem “Tulips” by Sylvia Plath is an example of ____ type of poetry.
“The tulips are too excitable, it is winter here.
Look how white everything is, how quiet, how snowed-in.
I am learning peacefulness, lying by myself quietly
As the light lies on these white walls, this bed, these hands.”
What is Open Form Poetry?