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Poetry Study Guide
Poetry: a form of writing that used compact language, pattern (verse), and rhythm to express feelings and ideas. A group of words that are written to express or draw out emotion, paint a picture, or give a sense of beauty.
A stanza is when the lines of a poem are grouped together, as with a paragraph. Stanzas may have any number of lines. It is important to note that a line in a stanza is not necessarily the number of sentences. Some lines are a complete sentence; some lines are only part of a sentence.
The form of a poem is the way it looks on the page. The form includes the number of lines in each stanza and the length of each line. Each stanza is separated by a blank space. Sometimes a stanza ends at the end of a complete idea, sometimes it ends in the middle of a sentence. Poets may do this to give the poem a certain flow.
Mood: Mood is the feeling created by the poet for the reader. How did the poem make you feel? Words for Mood Tone - the writer's attitude toward the audience; a writer's tone can be serious, sarcastic, solemn, objective, satirical, solemn, wicked, etc.
- Tone is the author’s overall outlook or attitude toward the given audience. Ironic, matter-of-fact, bemused, outraged, curiously respectful, disdainful - how does he/she feel about the fragment of life displayed in the story?
Mood - is the feeling a piece of literature arouses in the reader: happy, sad, peaceful, etc. Mood is the overall feeling of the piece, or passage.
Tone is the feeling displayed by the author toward the subject of the poem. - the writer's attitude toward the audience; a writer's tone can be serious, sarcastic, solemn, objective, satirical, solemn, wicked, etc.
Mood and tone often depend on one another to get across what the author is trying to portray. What is the writer describing?
Connecting: In what ways can you make connections with the poem?
Imagery: what do you picture in your mind when you read this poem?
Speaker: Who is talking in the poem?
Theme: what is the main message or lesson learned from the poem?
Language: what did you notice about the author's use of language in the poem?
Alliteration: when two or more words in a line begin with a similar-sounding syllable (like 'similar-sounding syllable'). Old English poets are super fond of this. They actually use this as a way to structure all of their verse; they have a bunch of words that start with the same letter.
Hyperbole: over-exaggerating something for dramatic effect, like 'This is the dumbest thing I've ever written,' or 'Beyoncé's music video is the greatest of all time.'
Onomatopoeia: when words are used to convey a certain sound, so if you sink a shot in basketball, it's a 'swish;' that would be onomatopoeia.
A simile is a comparison between two things using the words 'like' or 'as.' The use of one of those two words - like or as - helps the speaker vividly illustrate the c comparison he or she is making.
A metaphor is a direct statement that one thing is another thing.
Personification does just what the name suggests. When a poet employs personification, he or she is describing a thing or an animal, or an aspect of it, as though it were a person.
Poetry: a form of writing that used compact language, pattern (verse), and rhythm to express feelings and ideas. A group of words that are written to express or draw out emotion, paint a picture, or give a sense of beauty.
A stanza is when the lines of a poem are grouped together, as with a paragraph. Stanzas may have any number of lines. It is important to note that a line in a stanza is not necessarily the number of sentences. Some lines are a complete sentence; some lines are only part of a sentence.
The form of a poem is the way it looks on the page. The form includes the number of lines in each stanza and the length of each line. Each stanza is separated by a blank space. Sometimes a stanza ends at the end of a complete idea, sometimes it ends in the middle of a sentence. Poets may do this to give the poem a certain flow.
Mood: Mood is the feeling created by the poet for the reader. How did the poem make you feel? Words for Mood Tone - the writer's attitude toward the audience; a writer's tone can be serious, sarcastic, solemn, objective, satirical, solemn, wicked, etc.
- Tone is the author’s overall outlook or attitude toward the given audience. Ironic, matter-of-fact, bemused, outraged, curiously respectful, disdainful - how does he/she feel about the fragment of life displayed in the story?
Mood - is the feeling a piece of literature arouses in the reader: happy, sad, peaceful, etc. Mood is the overall feeling of the piece, or passage.
Tone is the feeling displayed by the author toward the subject of the poem. - the writer's attitude toward the audience; a writer's tone can be serious, sarcastic, solemn, objective, satirical, solemn, wicked, etc.
Mood and tone often depend on one another to get across what the author is trying to portray. What is the writer describing?
Connecting: In what ways can you make connections with the poem?
Imagery: what do you picture in your mind when you read this poem?
Speaker: Who is talking in the poem?
Theme: what is the main message or lesson learned from the poem?
Language: what did you notice about the author's use of language in the poem?
Alliteration: when two or more words in a line begin with a similar-sounding syllable (like 'similar-sounding syllable'). Old English poets are super fond of this. They actually use this as a way to structure all of their verse; they have a bunch of words that start with the same letter.
Hyperbole: over-exaggerating something for dramatic effect, like 'This is the dumbest thing I've ever written,' or 'Beyoncé's music video is the greatest of all time.'
Onomatopoeia: when words are used to convey a certain sound, so if you sink a shot in basketball, it's a 'swish;' that would be onomatopoeia.
A simile is a comparison between two things using the words 'like' or 'as.' The use of one of those two words - like or as - helps the speaker vividly illustrate the c comparison he or she is making.
A metaphor is a direct statement that one thing is another thing.
Personification does just what the name suggests. When a poet employs personification, he or she is describing a thing or an animal, or an aspect of it, as though it were a person.
The Road Not Taken (Thursday May 10)
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Homework for May 1, 2018
Holes Read pages 107-120
Record 3 DIFFERENT types of figurative language between chapters 20-28
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas chapters 11-20 vocabulary
Enunciate: say or pronounce clearly
Flounce: go or move in an exaggeratedly impatient or angry manner.
Disdain: the feeling that someone or something is unworthy of one's consideration or respect; contempt.
Contradict: deny the truth of (a statement), especially by asserting the opposite
Coincide: occur at or during the same time.
Civilized: polite, reasonable, and respectful
Inconsolable: not able to be comforted or alleviated.
Senile: having or showing the weaknesses or diseases of old age, especially a loss of mental faculties
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas: Chapters 1-7
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Encounter with Martin Luther King Jr. by Maya Angelou
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Homework for May 1, 2018
Holes Read pages 107-120
Record 3 DIFFERENT types of figurative language between chapters 20-28
*** 7th Grade may have until March 26 to complete B.I.S.P. ch.11-20 annotations
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas chapters 11-20 vocabulary
Enunciate: say or pronounce clearly
Flounce: go or move in an exaggeratedly impatient or angry manner.
Disdain: the feeling that someone or something is unworthy of one's consideration or respect; contempt.
Contradict: deny the truth of (a statement), especially by asserting the opposite
Coincide: occur at or during the same time.
Civilized: polite, reasonable, and respectful
Inconsolable: not able to be comforted or alleviated.
Senile: having or showing the weaknesses or diseases of old age, especially a loss of mental faculties
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas: Chapters 1-7
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Encounter with Martin Luther King Jr. by Maya Angelou
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THE ULTIMATE GIFT OUTLINE
THE ULTIMATE GIFT VOCABULARY
THE OUTSIDERS VOCABULARY PRACTICE
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Literary Elements
5 Types of Conflict
Character vs. Self
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Character vs. Nature
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Character vs. Character
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Character vs. Society
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Character vs. Technology
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An allusion a statement that refers indirectly, it is inferred not stated, to a well-known story, event, person, or object of historical, cultural, literary or political significance. The purpose is to make a comparison in the readers' minds.
Why use allusions? Because they connect literature to other pieces of literature, music, history, etc.... Allusions deepen and enrich a work's meaning.
Allusions in The Outsiders
Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Like the sunrise, Gone with the Wind is one of the things that connects Pony and Johnny. It’s a novel about the U.S. Civil War
Johnny's last words, “Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold…,” are an example of allusion. Johnny and Ponyboy talked about Robert Frost's poem Nothing Gold Can Stay while hiding out in the church in Windrixville. Johnny saw that the innocence of childhood provides hope. He sees a great deal of hope for the future in Ponyboy, but understands that the negativity that surrounds them has the ability to make him jaded. (jaded = so many negative things have occur that it becomes difficult to stay positive about what once gave you hope and joy.)
Johnny knows that it is too late for him, but he wants Ponyboy to fight against being consumed by violence and hate and find a way out.
Gone with the Wind
-Johnny uses this to help Ponyboy know Dally the way Johnny does. “Gallant”
Foreshadowing is dropping hints to the reader that something is about to happen. It's just a fancy term for when a book gives us hints or suggestions about what's going to happen down the road a page or two (or two hundred).
Ponyboy leaves a few hints that the church is going to burn when he narrates, '. . . if that old church ever caught fire there'd be no stopping it.' And, it does, indeed, burn to the ground. Did you feel the anticipation and suspense in this hint?
Examples:
(End of Chapter 3) "Let's walk to the park and back. Then maybe I'll be cooled off enough to go home." "Okay," Johnny said easily. "Okay." Things gotta get better, I figured. They couldn't get worse. I was wrong.
(End of Chapter 2) I really couldn't see what Socs would have to sweat about--- good grades, good cars, good girls, madras and Mustangs and Corvairs--- Man, I thought, if I had worries like that I'd consider myself lucky. I know better now.
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10/9 - 10/13 Schedule
Monday: Chapter 9 Analysis "let's get ready to rumble."
Tuesday: Chapters 1-9 Review (*literary elements)
online h.w. chapters 8-9
Wednesday: Vocabulary check
Thursday: Quiz/Test Assessment: Chapters 1-9: BE PREPARED TO HAND IN YOUR NOVELS FOR A QUICK ANNOTATION CHECK WHILE TAKING THE TEST!
Friday: 7th grade to visit M.S.M. (if back in time for class, we will read Chapter 10!)
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OUTSIDERS CHAPTER 7 QUESTIONS (DUE THURSDAY 10/5) click on link below
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The Outsiders chapters 5-6 homework questions (click the link below)
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The Outsiders pre-reading - ch.4 online quiz: click on the link below. You may use your novel, notes, and questions from yesterday to help. (in-class 9/29)
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