Day 1
New vocab packet; did the first two sections in class.
Then you turned in your poetry notes thus far.
Please look at your “Rhythm & Meter” and “Syllables, Feet & Meter" pages in your giant poetry packet you received on Friday. Most of you did not complete it correctly. PLEASE fix your answers and be prepared to turn it in tomorrow.
Remember; stressed syllables get a slash line / and unstressed syllables get a U (u for uuuunstressed). A stress is when your inflection goes up in a word. So LAP TOP is two syllables; stressed stressed. But a word like Criminal is three syllables; stressed, unstressed unstressed.
We took a few more notes today on specific figurative language in poetry.
Period 3 got a handout; please do the questions on a Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns ONLY. The first question is about rhyme scheme and MUST be done ON THE HANDOUT. Questions two and three must be done on a new sheet of paper.
Homework
Don't forget; school photos are on WEDNESDAY!
New vocab packet; did the first two sections in class.
Then you turned in your poetry notes thus far.
Please look at your “Rhythm & Meter” and “Syllables, Feet & Meter" pages in your giant poetry packet you received on Friday. Most of you did not complete it correctly. PLEASE fix your answers and be prepared to turn it in tomorrow.
Remember; stressed syllables get a slash line / and unstressed syllables get a U (u for uuuunstressed). A stress is when your inflection goes up in a word. So LAP TOP is two syllables; stressed stressed. But a word like Criminal is three syllables; stressed, unstressed unstressed.
We took a few more notes today on specific figurative language in poetry.
- Metaphor – a comparison between two seemingly unlike things.
- Simile – a comparison between two seemingly unlike things using like or as.
- Personification – giving human characteristics to inanimate (nonhuman) objects, items, or beings.
- Imagery – using colorful language and detailed descriptions that give you, the reader, a mental image of something. (uses sensory terms such as sight or smell descriptions).
- Hyperbole - a deliberate exaggeration.
- Meiosis - a deliberate understatement. (from the Greek word “meioo” that means “to diminish” or “to make smaller”.)
- Allusion – an indirect reference to a famous person, event, or other literary work.
- Apostrophe - a speech given to an inanimate object, an idea, or someone who is dead. Both this and the punctuation mark come from the Greek “to turn away.”(Frequently called “ode” or “odes” which means a dedication to).
Period 3 got a handout; please do the questions on a Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns ONLY. The first question is about rhyme scheme and MUST be done ON THE HANDOUT. Questions two and three must be done on a new sheet of paper.
Homework
- Finish the Syllables, Feet & Meter page of your poetry packet
- Period 3 - please complete the questions on Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns that is on your handout.
Don't forget; school photos are on WEDNESDAY!