Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Tuesday December 11 Edgar Allan Poe..introductory material and sound practice


COMING UP:  Vocabulary Quiz, Monday, December 17.The Fall of  the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe 2
 In class: Gothic, as a branch of Romanticism
                Figurative Language Device practice: sound sense (class handout / copy below)

Take out your notebooks; write a MLA heading











Part 1
On a fresh page in your notebook, copy out one of the following quotes and paraphrase its meaning in a minimum of three well-written sentences that reference specifically the words within your selection.

Part 2
As we proceed through the poetry terms, please copy down the definitions. You will need to refer back to these throughout this unit.





Name______________________­­­­__________         Alliteration, Assonance or Consonance
Using your notes, or refer back to the blog for Tuesday, December 4, for each of the following identify the use of sound sense.
Tips: Consonance occurs when sounds, not letters, repeat, not necessary letters. The repeated consonant sounds can occur anywhere within the words—at the beginning, middle, or end, and in stressed or unstressed syllables.
Consonance is repetition of consonant sounds: "Zach sneezed when he heard jazz music."
Assonance is repetition of vowel sounds: "Hey, wait! Don't blame me! Nate and James are the perpetrators!"
Alliteration: repeating sounds of alliteration must occur either in the first syllables of words or in the stressed syllables of words.

1.       ____________________________ A big black bug bit a big black dog and the big black dog bled blood.
2.       _____________________________Tiffany's offensive remarks disturbed Jeffrey and the other staff-members.
3.       ____________________________ Rap rejects my tape deck, ejects projectile
4.        ____________________________ He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.
5.       ____________________________ The engineer held the steering to steer the vehicle.
6.       ____________________________ “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.

7.       ____________________________ “Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door—

8.       ____________________________Skin copper, na-na stay proper, who could stop her?/Nuthin'. Hey, do a
                                                                 somersault/All that platinum **** you bought?

9.       _________________________       For men so old as we to keep the peace. _________________________
10.   ____________________________“We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths — that all of  
                                                                  us are created equal — is the star that guides us still; just as it guided our
                                                                  forebears through Seneca Falls, and   Selma, and Stonewall” — Barack
                                                                   Obama, Inaugural Address

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Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe    number 2 
__ QUIZ ON MONDAY, DECEMBER 17

1        boon  (noun)- treasure

                                    2   importunate (adjective)- persistent, especially to the point of
                                          annoyance

                                    3.   to alleviate (verb)- to reduce or make less severe

                                    4.   luster (noun)- radiance or shine

                                    5.   specious (adjective- misleading

                                    6.    fissure (noun)- a split or crack

                                    7.    phantasm (noun)- an illusion or ghost

                                    8.    palpable (adjective)- able to be touched or felt

                                    9.     to parlay (verb)- to hold conference



                                   10.    emaciated (adjective)- abnormally thin or weak


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