Assignment task: Complete a practice for a full length, timed essay about a poem.
You have a choice of two prompts. You may want to print the poem and have a copy of it near you as you brainstorm and draft your response.
Choose one prompt, carefully read the poem, and complete your work within a 50 minute time frame.
Option 1:
Read the poem, Mid-Term Break, carefully. Then, in a well developed essay, analyze how the poem's imagery, diction, point of view, and structure help build the meaning of the poem.
Option 2:
Read the poem, Sonnet [Nothing was ever what it claimed to be,], carefully. Then, in a well developed essay, analyze how the poem's imagery, diction, figurative language, point of view, and structure help build the meaning of the poem.