Unit 3 test is Thursday so study this weekend by re-reading the pieces you may have missed. There are some really long pieces in this section: Swift's essay, Pope's mock-epic, Gray's elegy, Coleridge's literary ballad, all require time. Re-reading them is the best way to prepare. Memorize the style of each one. Elements of satire--check. Elements of the mock-epic and the epic--check. Elegy and epigraph--check, check. Literary ballad--check. Look for ways to remember each author's works--terza rima, heroic couplets, alexandrine, ballad stanzas, neo-classic elements, etc.
Homework: Read Keats' bio in your text book and take careful notes. He started writing at 16. Remind you of anyone? Had he not died at 25, he would have been as prolific and as historic as Shakespeare.
Whenever you have spare time from now until the final exam, review, review, review. Have you read Chaucer lately? Can you recall the theme of Gawain? Who wrote "Whoso List To Hunt"? What is a ballad? What is cavalier poetry? Invocation? Inversion?
