Poeta for a Day

Below you can find all the instructions and resources you'll need to write your own poem for the Poeta for a Day final project.

English Instructions (Fall)

Latin Instructions (Spring)

Poetic Meter

Basic Scansion Rules

Dactylic Hexameter

Literary Devices

Devices Used in Latin

Examples

Previous Student Examples

Enriched Devices

Alliteration

Anaphora

Chiasmus

Hyperbaton

Metonymy

Simile

Transferred Epithet

Tricolon

Semester 2 Devices

Anastrophe

Enjambment

Parallelism

Polyptoton

Polysyndeton

Tricolon Crescens

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