Reflection "Spring and Fall"

I really enjoyed this exercise of reading the poem and then paraphrasing each line. It really helped me better understand what I as reading and further analyzing the poem to the best of my abilities. Poems are super hard for me to understand, as I usually just read to enjoy them. This exercise helped me slow my reading down and really think about what the speaker was trying to convey in the poem.

How to Analyze Literature- 3/25/15

3 important things I learned:

• The use of ¨pace¨ that the authors use to either slow down a reader or to speed up the reader while reading from a use of syntax, diction or dialogue. 
• Many tips for reading a poem during the AP Lit exam such as quickly getting to know the narrator, noticing the sound pattern of the poem like the terms being used or the rhyming, and the imagery within the words and phrases in the poem.
• From the section of Glossary of Literary, I learned new terms that I was unaware of such as anaphora, aphorism, assonance, caesura, couplet, elegy, jargon, panegyric, solilquy. 

2 questions I still have:

• How can I quickly develop a really good thesis statement in such little time? Any tips?
• Since there are many words in the AP Lit short stories that I always get stuck on because I don't know, are there any ways for me to get by this problem?

1 skill:

• I think I'm pretty good with identifying the narration and point of view of stories.