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English 11 Honors
February 25 (B) & 26 (A), 2016
Agenda - 2/25/2016
Reminder: Q1 & Q2 journals are due on 2/26!
Collect Handbook for “The Devil and Tom Walker”
Discuss/collect Grammar Practice #1
Journal
Grammar Practice #2
Emily Dickinson
Notes – Literary Devices in Poetry
Poetry Analysis
Homework: Finish Grammar Practice #2
NOTE: Prompt #47 Essay – Due 2/29 (B) or 3/1 (A)!
Writing Prompt –
All Alone
2/25/2016
– Mark Twain once said, “The worst loneliness is not to be
comfortable with oneself.”
– What do you think he meant by this?
– Does this idea apply to your own life?
– Conclude your entry by explaining how you feel about
being alone.
– Do you dread it, or do you enjoy having time to yourself?
American Romanticism
Unit Objectives
– Students will be able to understand that romantic literature is a journey away
from the corruption of society and the limits of rational thought toward the
integrity of nature and the freedom of the imagination. American Romanticism
broke into two separate journeys: an exploration of the past and of exotic or
supernatural realms and the contemplation of the natural world. It introduced a
hero completely different than all previous heroes – he was youthful, innocent,
intuitive, close to nature and uneasy with women.
– Essential Questions:
– How does American Romantic literature reflect, clarify, and criticize the time it portrays?
– How do the selections express the shared qualities of the beliefs and cultures of the time
period?
– How does Romantic literature differ from Early American literature?
Alliteration
 common in poetry and occasionally in prose, this is the
repetition of an initial sound in two or more words of a phrase,
line, or sentence. It is usually a consonant and marks the
stressed syllables in a line of poetry or prose.
 EXAMPLE:
 Whereat, with blade, with bloody blameful blade,
He bravely broached his boiling bloody breast.
~A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William
Shakespeare
 Modern examples: Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck
Personification
– a figure of speech in which abstractions, animals, ideas, and inanimate
objects are endowed with human form, character, traits, or sensibilities. An
entirely imaginary creature or person also may be conceived of as
representing an idea or object. Like a metaphor, personification is a frequent
resource in poetry.
– A colloquial example of personification is when one refers to a car as “she.”
– Another example of personification is “the wind shrieked through the
window.”
Paradox
– a statement that is apparently self-contradictory or
absurd but really contains a possible truth. Sometimes
the term is applied to a self-contradictory false
proposition. It is also used to describe an opinion or
statement which is contrary to generally accepted ideas.
Often, a paradox is used to make a reader consider the
point in a new way.
– An example of paradox is contained in Caesar’s speech
from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar:
– Cowards die many times before their deaths.
Act II, scene ii : line 32
Slant Rhyme
– rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are
identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours.
– Example: Talib Kweli from his song Memories Live.
– Yo it kind of make me think of way back when,
I was a portrait of the artist as a young man,
All those teenage dreams of rapping,
Writing rhymes on napkins,
Was really visualization, making this here actually happen,
– The rhyme scheme is A - slanted A - B - slanted B - slanted B
– Yo it kind of make me think of way back when, (A)
I was a portrait of the artist as a young man, (slanted A)
all those teenage dreams of rapping, (B)
writing rhymes on napkins, (slanted B)
was really visualization, making this here actually happen, (slanted B)
End Rhyme
– in poetry, a rhyme that occurs in the last syllables of verses.
– Example: Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”:
– Whose 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.
Meter/Rhythm & Iambs
– In poetry, the meter or metre is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse. Many
traditional verse forms prescribe a specific verse meter, or a certain set of
meters alternating in a particular order.
– An iamb or iambus is a metrical foot used in various types of poetry.
Originally the term referred to one of the feet of the quantitative meter of
classical Greek prosody: a short syllable followed by a long syllable (as in iamb).
– Iambic Tetrameter – Four Iambs
Sample Iambic Tetrameter
– Behold her, single in the field,
Yon solitary Highland Lass!
Reaping and singing by herself–
Stop here, or gently pass!
Alone she cuts and binds the grain,
And sings a melancholy strain;
O listen! for the vale profound
Is overflowing with the sound.
– ~from “The Reaper” by William Wordsworth
Emily Dickinson
– December 10,1830 - May 15, 1886 (Bright’s Disease/Kidney Disease)
– Amherst, Massachusetts
– After the death of her father (in 1874), Dickinson withdrew from the world,
never leaving the grounds of her father’s house and, according to legend,
dressing only in white.
– After her death, her sister Lavinia discovered almost two thousand poems
written on small slips of paper and sewn together in little booklets.
– One of these was “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain.”
– These poems were published in a number of editions (with many textual
variants) until the definitive three-volume edition of her poems was released in
1955.
http://www.enotes.com/felt-funeral/author-biography