Benchmark 3

3/12/14

• TEST TODAY -• IF YOU HAVE A FREDERICK DOUGLASS BOOK

PLEASE TURN IT IN TODAY! • BENCHMARK- WILL YOU BE HERE?

Using your textbook define and find examples of the following:

• Symbol• Personification• Rhyme scheme direct characterization• Theme connotation• Blank verse dynamic character• Simile static character• Diction verbal irony• alliteration

How to evaluate a poem

TPCASTT: Think– What is the importance of the title?– Put each stanza into your own words– Devices- in a testing situation, you will be asked

the importance of a certain device. – IS there a shift in the tone/mood of the poem? – What is the theme? ( look at overall idea in poem)

Poem example

• http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/178948– Tone, symbol, theme, rhyme scheme– http://www.bartleby.com/102/16.html– Thanatopsis- blank verse

American Romanticism

• Characteristics• Opinions held• http://prezi.com/cavegxb7v2m3/american-ro

manticism/

Close Reading

• Use ideas we’ve practice to read a passage on your own and correctly answer the questions that follow. – Read passage first– Summarize sections as you go– Be aware of patterns and their meanings.– Refer back to the passage to help answer specific

questions.