'Verse form' presentation slideshows

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Versification

Versification. versification covers all aspects of formal organizations of sounds that characterize verse range from localized alliteration patterns of rhythm, metre and rhyme larger matters, genre, sonnet, ballad, free verse focus on poetry, but grows out of language

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Do Now

Do Now. What do you think this story will be about?. The Inferno. Dante Alighieri. Dante. Dante was born into a poor but noble family in Florence, Italy in 1265 . Italy was a collection of independent city-states at the time, not a unified country.

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Types of Poetry

Types of Poetry. Lyric. Subjective , reflective poetry with regular rhyme scheme and meter which reveals the poet's thoughts and feelings to create a single , unique impression. Narrative. non-dramatic , objective verse with regular rhyme scheme and meter which relates a story or narrative.

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New Words

New Words. Warren/Maldonado. Gather Winter Master Tractor Shower Major Danger Enter Whether water. Solomon/Rodriguez. Dialogue Narrator Scene Differ Stage directions Stanzas Rhyming pattern Free-verse form Haiku Onomatopoeia . New Word:. Synonyms: 1 2 3 Antonym: 1

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Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer. Troilus & Criseyde. Geoffrey Chaucer: BIO/HISTORICAL CONTEXTS. Life Dates b. ca. 1340-45 T&C done ca. 1385 CT started ca. 1387 Relevant Regnal Dates 1327-77 (Edward III) 1377-99 (Richard II) 1399-1413 (Henry IV). Chaucer Bio and Implications.

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Poetry Forms

Poetry Forms. Dramatic Monologue. A poem in which a single fictional or historical character other than the poet speaks to a silent audience of one or more persons. - delves into the psychology of the character, whose personality is revealed (sometimes unwittingly)

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Beowulf

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Term Tuesday

Term Tuesday. A study of literary and rhetorical devices. Heroic couplet. Definition. Heroic couplets are lines of iambic pentameter that rhyme in pairs (aa, bb, cc). The couplet forms a rhetorical unit; it is written in an elevated style. In class example.

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The Village Schoolmaster by Oliver Goldsmith - a commentary on the poem

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CULTURE AND LITERATURE IN ENGLAND IN THE MIDDLE AGES

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Meter

Meter. Learning Outcomes: To have an understanding of how to identify metrical patterns. To be able to evaluate the effect of verse form and meter. The measured pattern of rhythmic accents in poems. . Some Important terms. Foot A metrical unit composed of stressed and unstressed syllables.

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Renaissance poetry

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Tanka and Haiku

Tanka and Haiku. English II. Tanka. Short verse form that began early in Japanese history and still survives today Has to do with social needs, obligations and past times Defining feature is syllable count- 31 syllables (5,7,5,7,7). English example. Snow upon the hills

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The Restoration Period

The Restoration Period . Enlightenment Era (18 th Century). Why is it called the period of Restoration?. Monarchy was restored in England and Charles II, son of Charles I who had been defeated and beheaded, came back to England from his exile in France and became the King.

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Marie De France

Marie De France. Marie de France a woman of French origin writing in England in the later decades of the twelfth century. widely educated, and in touch with the royal court. She dedicates her book of Lais to a "noble King" who was probably Henry II. Marie De France.

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