Welcome Back Year 12...

... and here's your first homework (Mr. Stanley/ Mr. Roberts' class)!!

FIND DEFINITIONS OF THESE KEY POETIC TERMS:

Enjambment
Ceasura
Alliteration
Couplet
Assonance
Metre
Leitmotif
Symbolism
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Iambic
Tone
Quatrain
Sonnet
Pathetic Fallacy
Metaphor
Simile
Anthropomorphism

ADD ALL DEFINTIONS TO A NEW GLOSSARY AT THE BACK OF YOUR BOOKS

DUE: THURSDAY 24th JUNE

ELLA 4: William Blake

Blake was renowned as an artist as well as a poet, although he received little recognition for this during his lifetime (I know that feeling all too well!!). Below is his poem 'The Sick Rose' as it was first published.

What does Blake's use of presentational features add to our understanding of this highly symbolic poem?