Unit 3: PoetryWeek 1

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

MONDAY TERMS

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.

TUESDAY TERMS

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.

THURSDAY TERMS

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

• Read “Hughes, Mistral, & Wordsworth” (619) w/ fig. lang. chart

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.