Objective Assignments HW
Mon Rhetorical Analysis, speeches
WU: PronounsNotes: Poetry TermsFDR’s Inaugural speech
Review & organize grammar handbook notes
Tues Rhetorical Analysis, speeches
WU: PronounsNotes: Poetry TermsFDR’s Inaugural speech
Wed Identify poetic terms & devices
WU: fragments, run-onsRead & Analyze Pat Mora“Reading Warm-Up” homework
Reading Warm-Up due Friday
Thurs Assess understanding
WU: Fragments, Run-Ons Notes: Poetic TermsHandout: “Learning About Poetry” & “Model Selection: Poetry”Rhyme Scheme Practice
Reading Warm-Up due Friday
Fri Analyze a lyric poem
WU: Review & turn in HWAnalyze a lyric poem (in a song)GH: coordinating conjunctions
Song analysis due Tues.GH page due Mon if not done in class
11/3-11/7: FDR Speech, Poetry
Notes: Poetic Terms
• Connotation
• Denotation:
• set of ideas associated with a word in addition to its meaning
• dictionary meaning of a word
Ex: heart—denotation is the organ in the body that pumps blood. Connotation is place that controls and represents our emotions and feelings
Notes: Poetic Terms
• Poetry/ verse:• A type of literature that is highly concise, rhythmical, and often rhyming
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Nikki Giovanni
Notes: Poetic Terms
• Rhyme scheme: • regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem, identified by using letters of the alphabet
Notes: Poetic Terms• Figurati
ve language:
• When a speaker/writer conveys something other than the literal meaning of his/her wordsEx: metaphors, similes, hyperbole
(exaggeration), etc.
Notes: Poetic Terms
• Types of poetry:
• Forms:
– Narrative: writer tells story in verse– Dramatic: writer tells story using
character's thoughts or statements– Lyric: writer expresses feelings of a
speaker, creating single effect on reader
– patterns of rhyme, rhythm, etc Haikus, sonnets, epics, ballads, etc.
Notes: Poetic Terms
• Metaphor
• Ex: Langston HughesHold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-
winged bird That cannot fly.
• comparison between unlike things that does not use words like like or as.
Notes: Poetic Terms
• Paradox: • a statement, an idea, or a situation that seems contradictory but actually expresses a truth:
“I must be cruel to be kind.”—Shakespeare (Hamlet)
“I can resist anything but temptation.” Oscar Wilde
Notes: Poetic Terms
• Personification
• Ex: Wordsworth
I wandered lonely as a cloud
• Giving inanimate objects or concepts animate or living qualities.
Notes: Poetic Terms
• Simile • The comparison between two unlike things using like, as, or though.
Ex: Robert BurnsO my luve's like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June; O my luve's like the melodie That's sweetly played in tune.
Notes: Poetic Terms
• Assonance
• Ex: I rose and told him of my woe
Allen Ginsberg
• Repeating same or similar vowel sound in sentence or line of poetry
Notes: Poetic Terms• Consonance
• Ex: Robert FrostWhose woods these are I
think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow.
• Repeating same or similar consonant sound in a sentence or line of poetry
Notes: Poetic Terms
• Alliteration: • the repetition of initial sounds in stressed syllables:“The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew . . .”
Notes: Poetic Terms
• Onomatopoeia: • the use of a word whose sound imitates its meaning, such as pop or hiss
Grammar Handbook: Coordinating Conjunctions
• FANBOYS
• RULES
– For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So
1. Use coordinating conjunctions to connect words, phrases, and clauses, (sentences).
2. When connecting two clauses, use a comma before the coordinating conjunction.
– Ex: I went swimming, and I felt refreshed.
– Both parts could stand alone as sentences. This makes them both clauses.
Second Grading Period Progress
• Last week: Clauses1. A sentence must contain
at least one independent clause (subject and verb that can stand alone).
2. A sentence without an independent clause is a FRAG (fragment).
3. A sentence with more than one independent clause that is not properly punctuated is a R/O (run-on).
• This week: Coordinating Conjunctions
1. Use coordinating conjunctions to connect words, phrases, and clauses, (sentences).
2. When connecting two clauses, use a comma before the coordinating conjunction.