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
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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