--adriana please sit those books of shakespeares plays on this here stand well be using them later in class
Class Activities:
--we will pause our reading of "Owl Creek Bridge" to begin reviewing for the mid-term exam.
--the exam is monday January 13
--today we will receive our review sheet (listed below)
--we will also receive the literature that will appear on the exam (see Mr. Schappert for copies)
--with the literature, we will begin reading it and annotating
--review notes on annotating texts
11th Grade
Midterm Review Sheet
Stanza- One of the divisions of a poem, composed of two or more lines
Paraphrasing- writing what an author says
in your own words
Irregular Capitalization- when words are
capitalized in a poem where they wouldn’t normally be (words that are not
proper nouns or at the beginning of a sentence). The purpose of this is to draw attention to
those words to emphasize them.
Rhythm- The pattern or flow of sound
created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables
Read the following poem and answer the
questions below:
The Soul Selects her own Society
by: Emily Dickinson
The Soul
selects her own Society-
Then- shuts
the Door-
To her
diving Majority-
Present no
more-
Unmoved-she
notes the Chariots- pausing-
At her low
Gate-
Unmoved- an
Emperor be kneeling
Upon her
Mat-
I’ve known
her- from an ample nation-
Choose One-
Then- close
the Valves of her attention-
Like Stone-
1)
How many stanzas are in this poem?
2)
How many lines are in each stanza?
3)
Paraphrase stanza #1.
4)
Which words are irregularly capitalized in
stanza #2?
5)
Why do you think Dickinson capitalized those
words in stanza #2?
6)
How do the pauses in this poem affect the rhythm
of it?
Directions:
Use context clues and your knowledge of the base words or prefixes to determine
the meaning of the following words:
When asked about what she viewed
as important in a friendship, Sara said that fidelity was very important
because she wanted friends who would stick by her. She told of a time when a friendship didn’t
work out because her friend would talk behind her back. Apparently there were foreboding signs all along,
like her friend would be really interested in all of the bad things that were
happening to Sara, but none of the good.
Her friend would also only do things with Sara if Sara made all of the
arrangements. Sara decided that it was
important to have a friend that would collaborate with her so they would have
an equal say in what plans they were going to make. The next time Sara met someone, she clarified
her expectations so that her new friend would understand the kind of friendship
she would like to have.
1)
The root “fid” means “faith.” Use this knowledge and the context clues
above to write the best meaning of the word fidelity. Underline the context clues in the paragraph
that helped you determine this.
_____________________________________
2)
The root “fore” means “in front of.” Use this knowledge and the context clues above
to write the best meaning of the word foreboding. Underline the context clues in the paragraph
that helped you determine this.
_____________________________________
3)
The root “clar” means “clear.” Use this knowledge and the context clues
above to write the best meaning of the word clarity. Underline the context clues in the paragraph
that helped you determine this.
_____________________________________
4)
The root “col” means “together” or “jointly.” Use this knowledge and the context clues
above to write the best meaning of the word collaborate. Underline the context clues in the paragraph
that helped you determine this.
_____________________________________
Imagery: descriptive words and phrases writers use to
re-create sensory experiences for readers.
By appealing to the five senses, imagery helps a reader imagine what the
character’s experiences being described are like.
Identify some Imagery from the following passage by Washington Irving
in “The Devil and Tom Walker”
“They lived in a forlorn-looking house that stood alone and had an air
of starvation. A few straggling savin
trees, emblems of sterility, grew near it, no smoke ever curled from its
chimney. . . A miserable horse, whose ribs were as articulate as the bars of a
gridiron, stalked about a field, where a thin carpet of moss. . . tantalized
and balked his hunger.”
Mood: the feeling or atmosphere that a writer
creates for the reader. Writer’s mostly use Figurative Language and
Imagery to create Mood.
Note the Mood that Irving creates for the reader in “Devil and Tom
Walker”
“The swamp was thickly grown with great gloomy pines and hemlocks. It was full of pits and quagmires, partly
covered with weeds and mosses, where the green surface often betrayed the
traveler into a gulf of black, smothering mud”
Tone: a writer’s attitude toward a subject. Unlike Mood, which refers to the emotional
response of the reader, Tone reflects the feelings of the writer.
Note the Tone toward the raven in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” in the
examples below:
“This ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling / By the grave and
stern decorum of the countenance it wore”
--there is an amused tone, with words like beguiling and smiling
“Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!” I shrieked,
upstarting / “Get thee back into the tempest and the Night’s Plutonian shore!”
--there is an enraged tone here as the raven is driving the speaker to
madness
Figurative
Language: language that communicates beyond the literal
meaning of words, attempting to make unfamiliar ideas easier to
understand. Figurative language uses
most commonly the literary tools of: Simile,
Metaphor, Personification, and Hyperbole
Examples
Personification: “Because I could not stop for Death” by Emily
Dickinson p. 548. She uses
personification in lines 1 and 2.
“Because I could not stop for Death-- / He kindly stopped for me” --here, death is personified as a person that
she could not stop for but that stopped for her.
Simile:
“I heard a Fly buzz—when I died” by Emily Dickinson p. 553. Simile appears in the line 3: “Was like the
Stillness in the Air” –here she use simile to compare the sounds of the room
and the buzz of the fly.
Metaphor: from Anne Bradstreet’s poem “Upon the Burning
of Our House” on p. 118.
“Thou
hast an house on high erect, / Framed by that mighty Architect”
--Bradstreet is saying that she has a
house in heaven (on high erect) made by God (framed by that mighty
Architect.
Hyperbole: From “Upon the Burning of Our House,”
Bradstreet uses Hyperbole with the lines:
“I
prize thy love more than whole mines of gold / Or all the riches that the East
doth hold.”
--Bradstreet is emphasizing her love for
her husband, which she values more than all the riches in all the hidden tombs
of the world
Paradox:
a statement that seems to contradict
itself but may nevertheless suggest an important truth
In Walden,
Henry David Thoreau uses Paradox:
“I am not as wise as the day I was
born.” --this suggests that living in
society with all its rules and regulations erases a child’s natural wisdom and
spiritual awareness
From “Civil Disobedience” Thoreau again
uses Paradox;
“That government is best which governs
least” --this suggests that the
government which stays out of its citizens’ personal affairs is the strongest
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