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Course Learning Outcomes

After you have successfully completed this course, you should be able to do the following:

  1. Correctly use poetry terms in discussing poetry.

  2. Recognize and use the following poetic devices of sound: assonance, consonance, alliteration, onomatopoeia, and echoic words.

  3. Identify and use words that evoke sensory responses.

  4. Identify and use the figurative devices of simile, metaphor, and personification.

  5. Understand and use the poetic conventions of rhythm and meter and correctly scan a poem.

  6. Correctly identify and use perfect rhyme, slant rhyme, end rhyme, internal rhyme, and rhyme scheme.

  7. Correctly compose format poems such as cinquains, haikus, tankas, sonnets, and villanelles.

  8. Compose free verse based on observation, experience, and emotion.

  9. Analyze poetry in terms of the concepts covered in this course.

  10. Keep track of ideas and thoughts that come to you for use in poetic compositions.

Course Materials

All of the text required for this class is included in the course already. Make sure you have access to a good dictionary, however. Any first person references (I, me, my, etc.) in the course content refer to the author of the course, not your instructor. Also, I would recommend attaining a writing notebook to complete writing assignments in throughout the course.

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Assignments

You will complete these assignments during the course.

Most of the lessons in this course are followed by a self check quiz. These computer-graded quizzes do not count toward your grade. If you pay attention and do well they will prepare you for the unit quizzes and for the final exam.

This course consists of 6 units. Each unit ends with a computer-graded unit quiz. These assignments count toward your grade and are one of the best ways to prepare for the final exam.

Throughout the course you will complete writing assignments. You need to save these assignments to a secure place, like some kind of writing notebook. At the end of the course you will compile a poetry portfolio to submit to your instructor. Be sure you do not submit the portfolio until you have completed and attached every assignment associated with it. Carefully review the portfolio assignment submission page so you understand what assignments need to be submitted.

Exams

You will complete one final exam for this course. See the Exam Preparation page for details.

The final exam consists of 50 multiple-choice questions.

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Grading

Your grade in this course will be based on these assignments and exams:

Assignment or Exam Grading Percent of Total Grade
6 Unit Quizzes Computer 60%
1 Poetry Portfolio Submission Instructor 15%
1 Final Exam* Computer 25%

Grade Scale

Your letter grade is calculated according to these percentages.

A 93% - 100%
A- 90% - 92%
B+ 87% – 89%
B 83% - 86%
B- 80% - 82%
C+ 77% - 79%
C 73% - 76%
C- 70% - 72%
D+ 67% - 69%
D 63% - 66%
D- 60% - 62%
F (fail) 0% - 59%

Getting Help

Please use the help menu in this course to contact Academy of America or your instructor. You can find information about tutoring available to Academy of America students on the Tutoring website.

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  • Academic success skills coaching such as time management, study skills, test preparation, motivation, and more.

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Course Policies

For information about how long you have to complete the course, resubmitting assignments, retaking exams, and other questions, please see Course Policies.

Plagiarism Policy

Plagiarism is defined as the unauthorized use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one’s own original work. This may also include when a student copies and pastes directly from another source and passes it off as his or her own, copies computer-generated text from a translation tool and uses it as his or her own, or fails to cite a source after loosely summarizing its content in his or her own words.

As determined by your instructor or the BYU Independent Study administration, if evidence of academic misconduct on assignments or exams is established, one of the two following consequences will apply to each incidence:

First Offense of Plagiarism

  • You will fail the lesson and be allowed the opportunity to resubmit the lesson (or)

  • You will fail the lesson and be denied the opportunity to resubmit the lesson

Second Offense of Plagiarism

  • You will fail the lesson and fail the class (or)

  • You will fail the lesson, fail the class, and may be ineligible to enroll in a specific course or any of our courses without going through an appeals process

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