ENGLISH 2343: POETRY & DRAMA STUDY GUIDE
- Prepare to define fully each of the following terms:
- allegory
- alliteration
- allusion
- apostrophe
- assonance
- blank verse
- cacophony
- connotation
- consonance
- couplet
- denotation
- didactic poetry
- euphony
- hyperbole
- iamb
- iambic pentameter
- imagery
- irony
- metaphor
- meter
- onomatopoeia
- paradox
- personification
- rhythm
- simile
- sonnet
- symbol
- theme
- tone
ADDITIONAL PLAYS FOR STUDY/REPORTS
Select one of the following plays to read. During the final week of class, you will submit a typed summary of the play; your oral report will include some biographical information about the author, a brief summary of the action (plot); AND your analysis/opinion of the work. Your oral report of the critical (research) paper will follow this report. For clarity in reading, I have omitted italics in the titles below.
- Antigone
- Medea
- Lysistrata
- The Taming of the Shrew
- Midsummer Night's Dream
- Twelfth Night
- As You Like It
- Antony and Cleopatra
- Tartuffe
- The Imaginary Invalid
- Love is the Doctor
- The Miser
- The Doctor in Spite of Himself
- The Importance of Being Ernest
- A Doll House
- Am I Blue
- A Son, Come Home
- A Man in a Case
- Hedda Gabler
- Ghosts
- An Enemy of the People
- The Circle
- Saint Joan
- Pygmalion
- Murder in the Cathedral
- A Raisin in the Sun
- The Three Sisters
- Mother Courage
- The Glass Menagerie
- A Streetcar Named Desire
- The Crucible
- True West
- Trifle
- Fences
- Crimes of the Heart
- Sure Thing
Professor Joyce M. Miller 
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