- sequ, secu, sue - follow
- simil, simul - like, resembling
- Block, 1/12 & 1/13 - "If" Memorization Quiz
- Monday, 1/16 - No School
- Tuesday, 1/17 - Roots Quiz
- Wednesday, 1/18 - Poetry Project is due
This stanza due on Block!
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
EQ: What is alliteration? What is assonance? Denotation? Connotation?
Here is a refined list of the Poetic Devices
A chosen few with examples and explanations:
ALLITERATION -
occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning or sound at the beginning of closely connected words
“The day to cheer and night's dank dew to dry,” (Spoken by Friar Lawrence in Act 2 at the beginning of Scene 3. This example shows four repetitions of “d.”)
ASSONANCE -
repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds in words that are close together
repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds in words that are close together
“Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage, against the dying of the light.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight,
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage, against the dying of the light.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight,
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
(Do Not Go Gentle into the Good Night by Dylan Thomas)
DENOTATION -
literal meaning of a word
I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
(To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee)
In this denotation example, the character of Atticus Finch redefines the word “courage” for his children. Speaking against the popular belief that guns represent power and therefore courage, Atticus instead defines courage as the attempt to change things even knowing that there is no hope. This redefinition of the concept of courage shapes both the book and his children’s lives.
I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
(To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee)
In this denotation example, the character of Atticus Finch redefines the word “courage” for his children. Speaking against the popular belief that guns represent power and therefore courage, Atticus instead defines courage as the attempt to change things even knowing that there is no hope. This redefinition of the concept of courage shapes both the book and his children’s lives.
Connotation provides the basis for symbolic meanings of words because
symbolic meanings of objects are different from their literal sense.
Look at the following lines from Shakespeare’s play “As you Like It”:
“All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,”
“All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,”
“A stage” connotes the world; “players” suggests human beings; and “parts” implies different stages of their lives.
HOMEWORK -
HOMEWORK -
- Memorize the first stanza of "If"
- Study the (4) devices listed above
- Work on your poetry project
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