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Important Reminders and Upcoming Literary Assignments

Attention students! If you missed the timed writing on Jan. 30, makeup sessions are available on Feb. 6 or 8 during both lunches. Failure to attend by Friday will result in a zero for this assignment. Looking ahead, we have an AP practice exam on Feb. 7 with 55 multiple-choice questions in one hour, so bring your Literary/Poetic Elements handouts. Additionally, please read Chapter 4 from "How to Read Literature Like a Professor" by Mon, Feb. 11. We will explore Romanticism and make connections between poets Keats and Coleridge.

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Important Reminders and Upcoming Literary Assignments

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  1. Important Reminder: • If you were absent on Jan 30: Timed Writing makeup is on Wed, Feb 6 or Fri, Feb 8 during both lunches. Failure to come in by Friday will result in a zero for this assignment!!!!!

  2. Looking Ahead: • Thurs, Feb 7: AP Practice Exam: multiple choice, 55 questions, one hour. Bring Literary/Poetic Elements handouts. • Read Chapter 4, pp. from How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Mon, Feb 11 when you arrive to class!!

  3. 2-5-13 Objectives: • To identify characteristics of Romanticism in poems and to observe the difference between them and Metaphysical poetry/prose • To make connections between Keats and Coleridge.

  4. Today’s Agenda: • Discuss “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”. • Connect this poem to “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”. • Intro to Metaphysical Poetry. • Read “Meditation 17”

  5. Sophisticated Terms: • Cacophonous: having a harsh or discordant sound. • Doggerel: comic or burlesque and usually loose or irregular in measure. • Enjambment: the running of a thought from one line , couplet, or stanza to the next without a syntactical break.

  6. Zeugma: a figure of speech in which a word is used to modify or govern two or more words although appropriate to only one of them or making a different sense with each: Mr. Pickwick took his hat and his leave. (Dickens)

  7. Dubious: undecided, doubtful

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