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Unit 3: Poetry
Week 1
11/3-11/7: FDR Speech, Poetry
Objective
Assignments
HW
Mon
Rhetorical
Analysis,
speeches
WU: Pronouns
Notes: Poetry Terms
FDR’s Inaugural speech
Review & organize
grammar handbook notes
Tues
Rhetorical
Analysis,
speeches
WU: Pronouns
Notes: Poetry Terms
FDR’s Inaugural speech
Wed
Identify poetic
terms & devices
WU: fragments, run-ons
Read & Analyze Pat Mora
“Reading Warm-Up” homework
Reading Warm-Up due
Friday
Thurs
Assess
understanding
WU: Fragments, Run-Ons
Notes: Poetic Terms
Handout: “Learning About Poetry”
& “Model Selection: Poetry”
Rhyme Scheme Practice
Reading Warm-Up due
Friday
Fri
Analyze a lyric
poem
WU: Review & turn in HW
Analyze a lyric poem (in a song)
GH: coordinating conjunctions
Song analysis due Tues.
GH page due Mon if not
done in class
MONDAY TERMS
Notes: Poetic Terms
• Connotation
• set of ideas associated with a
word in addition to its meaning
• Denotation:
• 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
• Figurative • When a speaker/writer conveys
something other than the literal
language:
meaning of his/her words
Ex: metaphors, similes, hyperbole
(exaggeration), etc.
TUESDAY TERMS
Notes: Poetic Terms
• Types of
poetry:
– 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
• Forms:
– patterns of rhyme, rhythm, etc
Haikus, sonnets, epics, ballads, etc.
Notes: Poetic Terms
• Metaphor • comparison between unlike things
that does not use words like like or as.
• Ex: Langston Hughes
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged
bird
That cannot fly.
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 Burns
O 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
• Repeating same or similar vowel
sound in sentence or line of poetry
• Ex: I rose and told him
of my woe
Allen Ginsberg
Notes: Poetic Terms
• Consonance
• Repeating same or similar
consonant sound in a sentence or
line of poetry
• Ex: Robert Frost
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.
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: Clauses
1. 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 (runon).
• 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.