4/22

impinge: to make an impression; have an effect or impact (usually followed by on or upon):

inchoate: not completely formed or developed yet

What colleges are you looking at??

4/21

Cursory- hasty and therefore not thorough or detailed
Cupidity- greed for money or possessions


Differences on realism versus modernism?

Wednesday, 4/20

calumny-a misrepresentation intended to harm another's reputation
contrite- feeling or showing regret for bad behavior
arrogate-to take or claim (something, such as a right or a privilege) in a way that is not fair or legal
aspersion- a sprinkling with water especially in religious ceremonies

Today's instructions:

1. Choose two of the vocabulary words to put into sentence form below.

2. In the American literature book, read the background information on pages 482-483.

3. Read the story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" by Twain.

4. "Writing about literature" located on the bottom of page 489 asks you to write a brief essay...you do not have to write an essay, but answer the two questions in order to analyze the setting:  Why might Twain have selected this setting?  How would the story be different if the narrator had met Wheeler in a city?  No more than one paragraph each.  Complete this in a word document, and turn it in the class bin.

5.  We have touched on "realism" and now we are moving on to the modern period and how that affected American literature.  View the slide below, and take notes accordingly.  You do not need to know individual authors and their works of writing.

http://www.slideshare.net/jhazle/american-literature-introduction-to-the-modern-period

6.  Watch this short bio:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuQIZ7V9C7U


*Whatever you do not finish is homework
*If you were absent yesterday, check the absent folder.  Time yourself on the MC: 25 minutes only.

Poe :)

adumbrate- to foreshadow vaguely
alacrity- a quick and cheerful readiness to do something

Why do you think Poe ended his story with the main character being saved?  Think of Gothic elements, the time period, and the message that could have been behind the decision.

http://study.com/academy/lesson/the-literary-realism-movement-a-response-to-romanticism.html

Vocab & Terms- happy Friday!

metonym- the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, for example suit for business executive, or the track for horse racing

Meiosis can be used as a simile for litotes....same thing, different name. What's litotes?  See yesterday's journal :) 


*using vocabulary from the "Fall of the house of Usher," write a reaction to the story.  No more than one paragraph...use at least two words. This must make sense.

A Dream

 Heptameter- an iamb times 7.... in one line
litotes-  ironical understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary (e.g., you won't be sorry, meaning you'll be glad ).

A Dream by Edgar Allan Poe

In visions of the dark night
I have dreamed of joy departed-
But a waking dream of life and light
Hath left me broken-hearted.

Ah! what is not a dream by day
To him whose eyes are cast
On things around him with a ray
Turned back upon the past?

That holy dream- that holy dream,
While all the world were chiding,
Hath cheered me as a lovely beam
A lonely spirit guiding.

What though that light, thro' storm and night,
So trembled from afar-
What could there be more purely bright
In Truth's day-star?

Analyze:

SOAPS...

Why did Poe write this poem?

POEtry (cred: Aaron Stoner)

 envoy (envoi)- An envoi or envoy is a short stanza at the end of a poem used either to address an imagined or actual person or to comment on the preceding body of the poem.

https://www.youngwriters.co.uk/terms-envoy

epithet:

http://literarydevices.net/epithet/

 

 

Annabel Lee

by Edgar Allan Poe
(published 1849)

  
It was many and many a year ago,
   In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
   By the name of ANNABEL LEE;--
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
   Than to love and be loved by me.
She was a child and I was a child,
   In this kingdom by the sea,
But we loved with a love that was more than love--
   I and my Annabel Lee--
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
   Coveted her and me.

And this was the reason that, long ago,
   In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud by night
   Chilling my Annabel Lee;
So that her high-born kinsman came
   And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
   In this kingdom by the sea.

The angels, not half so happy in Heaven,
   Went envying her and me:--
Yes! that was the reason (as all men know,
   In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of a cloud, chilling
   And killing my Annabel Lee.

But our love it was stronger by far than the love
   Of those who were older than we--
   Of many far wiser than we-
And neither the angels in Heaven above,
   Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
   Of the beautiful Annabel Lee:--

For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
   Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise but I see the bright eyes
   Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride,
   In her sepulchre there by the sea--
   In her tomb by the side of the sea.



How does Poe's word choice affect his purpose??

Sample Scores for Timed Essay

http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/ap/apcentral/ap14_english_lang_q3.pdf

4/12

No vocab

Breaking down poem lit terms:

cacophony- sounds that clash when said out loud

euphony is the antynym of cacophony.....examples here:

http://literarydevices.net/cacophony/

The following poem was used as a rhetorical writing prompt.  Instead of writing to respond to the prompt, analyze (SOAPS, DISS TP, poem strategies) with a group of no more than three people.  Respond as a group and include everyone's name.

1991

Read carefully the following poem by Emily Dickinson.  Then write an essay in which you describe the speaker’s attitude toward the woman’s death.  Using references to the text, show how the use of language reveals the speaker’s attitude.

                                                            The last Night that She lived

                                             It was a Common Night

                                             Except the Dying—this to Us

                                             Made Nature different

                                    5       We noticed smallest things—

                                             Things overlooked before

                                             By this great light upon our Minds

                                             Italicized—as ‘twere

                                             As We went out and in

                                    10     Between Her final Room

                                             And Rooms where Those to be alive

                                             Tomorrow were, a Blame

                                             That Others could exist

                                             While She must finish quite

                                    15     A Jealousy for Her arose

                                             So nearly infinite—

                                             We waited while She passed—

                                             It was a narrow time—

                                             Too jostled were Our Souls to speak

                                    20     At length the notice came.

                                             She mentioned, and forgot—

                                             Then lightly as a Reed

                                             Bent to the Water, struggled scarce—

                                             Consented, and was dead—

                                    25     And We—We placed the Hair—

                                             And drew the Head erect—

                                             And then an awful leisure was

                                             Belief to regulate—

4/11

didactic- designed or intended to teach people something

pedantic- overly concerned with minute details, especially in teaching.  

Anapaest & Dactyl meter

What is the difference? Check it out here:

http://literarydevices.net/anapest/

 

Read the following Poem by Edgar Allen Poe and alayze it using your poetry terms and rhetorical strategies chart:

 

Alone

by Edgar Allan Poe
(published 1875)

  

From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were -- I have not seen
As others saw -- I could not bring
My passions from a common spring --
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow -- I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone --
And all I lov'd -- I lov'd alone --
Then -- in my childhood -- in the dawn
Of a most stormy life -- was drawn
From ev'ry depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still --
From the torrent, or the fountain --
From the red cliff of the mountain --
From the sun that 'round me roll'd
In its autumn tint of gold --
From the lightning in the sky
As it pass'd me flying by --
From the thunder, and the storm --
And the cloud that took the form
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view --

 

Debate day

*no vocab

Watch the video:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxuTMH7b1VU

 Scan the following articles.  Choose a side of the argument...write down a few points that will support your argument.

Articles for:

http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-article-display?id=SPL2248-0-9285&artno=0000369147&type=ART

http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-article-display?id=SPL2248-0-9285&artno=0000369515&type=ART 



Articles against:

http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-article-display?id=SPL2248-0-9285&artno=0000364574&type=ART

http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-article-display?id=SPL2248-0-9285&artno=0000360565&type=ART



Analysis of poems from yesterday:

Shakespeare: https://aptestreview.flvs.net/FLVSAPReview/HTMLContent/aplit_tr_nf/mod3/passage01/4_1_5b.htm

The Unknown Citizen:

http://www.bachelorandmaster.com/britishandamericanpoetry/the-unknown-citizen.html#.VwZ1pHrGomU

One Art:

http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/bishop/oneart.htm

Piano:

https://litxpert.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/analysis-piano-d-h-lawrence/