literary terms 5 polysyndeton -romance. polysyndeton ◦ sentence which uses a conjunction with no...
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polysyndeton
◦Sentence which uses a conjunction with NO commas to separate the items in a series.
◦X and Y and Z
PROTAGONIST◦ THE CENTRAL CHARACTER IN A STORY, THE ONE WHO INITIATES OR DRIVES THE
ACTION; HERO OR THE ANTI-HERO
◦GUESS WHO?
PUN
◦A PLAY ON WORDS BASED ON THE MULTIPLE MEANINGS OF A SINGE WORD OR ON WORDS THAT SOUND ALIKE BUT MEAN DIFFERENT THINGS.
REFRAIN
◦A WORD, PHRASE, LINE, OR GROUP OF LINES THAT IS REPEATED FOR EFFECT SEVERAL TIMES IN A POEM
BALLADS are sometimes written in quatrains. They also use refrains.◦ Please read the following ballads: “Lord Randall” - http://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l-bCT0OedQ
◦ “Edward, Edward” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCkcYYQv3so
Assignment # 1◦Write a reader response on the ballads (one page minimum). You may comment
on theme, dialect, the singing of the ballad (its intended medium), etc. Please format according to MLA guidelines (must be typed). This assignment is due on Wednesday, April 2, 2014. I will grade your writing, so please edit and revise before submission. Thanks!
RHYTHM/ POETIC FEET
◦The rise and fall of the voice produced by the alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables in language.
◦Please visit the following site:
◦https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/570/03/
Assignment 2
◦Please answer the following; use the previously cited web page for information. You will find words that fit the specific patterns on the internet. You will be responsible for matching the name with the pattern on the literary terms exam.
◦Assignment due Friday, April 4, 2014.
ROMANCE- popular in Middle Ages◦In general, a story in which an idealized hero or heroine undertakes a quest or a challenge
Romances involve
◦Journeys or pilgrimages
◦Use the peregrinatus (peregrinations) theme (theme that life is a pilgrimage and that we are all pilgrims
Involves a willing suspension of disbelief
◦ http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Suspension_of_disbelief.html
◦ Read the definition and Coleridge’s Original Formulation- take notes. Due Friday, April 4, 2014.
Number symbolism- five
◦Known as the five-knot or endless knot◦Image on the outside of Sir Gawain’s shield
Please read the first stanza from this excerpt from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
◦Notice all references to the number five. http://csis.pace.edu/grendel/projf984b/Text.htm
Please read
◦“The Wife of Bath’s Tale” from The Canterbury Tales◦Find elements of a medieval romance in the story.◦Answer questions that accompany the story.◦Due Friday, April 4, 2014.