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English II Honors – 25 October

English II Honors – 25 October. Grab handouts Have textbook & notebook out HW: Study for Unit 2 – Medieval English Literature test Wednesday Vocabulary Unit 4 Quiz Friday Quarter ends this week. Make up all quizzes by Wednesday

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English II Honors – 25 October

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  1. English II Honors – 25 October • Grab handouts • Have textbook & notebook out • HW: • Study for Unit 2 – Medieval English Literature test Wednesday • Vocabulary Unit 4 Quiz Friday • Quarter ends this week. Make up all quizzes by Wednesday • Essay scores will be entered by Wednesday. If you haven’t yet turned it in to turnitin.com, this score will be a zero until you do so and let me know.

  2. Early English & Scottish Ballads and Everyman Elements of Literature pages 105 - 121

  3. Reading a poem academically • Look at the poem’s title • Read the poem straight through • Use writing to think • Look for patterns. • Identify the narrator (or speaker) • Read the poem again • Find the crucial moments. • Consider form and function. • Look at the language of the poem. • Go deeper or call it quits.

  4. Early English & Scottish Ballads • From traditions of common people • Oral & sung • Characteristics: • Simple narrative • Focus on single incident • Little, if any, attention to characterization

  5. Early English & Scottish Ballads • Literary Elements: • Refrain: A word, phrase, line, or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem, usually at the end of a stanza • Effect? • Incremental repetition: Repetition of a previous line but with a slight variation each time that advances the narration stanza by stanza. • Quatrain: A stanza of four lines

  6. “Sir Patrick Spens” • You’ll notice some differences in translation.

  7. Poetic Meter • Meter: A generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry • Foot: a unit of measurement for meter • A vertical line | is used to separate feet • Example: I like | big butts | and I | cannot | lie Those oth|erbro|erscan’t|deny • Iamb: One unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable, such as rePORT. • A half circle (ŭ) above the syllable is used for unstressed, an accent mark (ú) is used for stressed.

  8. Poetic Meter • A metrical line is named for its pattern and number of feet: • Iambic Pentameter (5 iambs): • I like | big butts | and I | cannot | lie • It should be noted that a lot of poetry won’t fit exactly into these forms. Like above

  9. Everyman • Miracle Play: a popular religious drama of medieval England. Miracle plays were based on stories of the saints or on sacred history • Morality Play: Religious dramas in which virtues and vices were personified • Everyman • All characters are a vice or virtue: Death, Fellowship, Good Deeds, Strength, etc. • Everyman (representing us) finds out he is dying, and asks all his friends, (Strength, Fellowship, Beauty) to come with him. Only Good Deeds comes with him. • Allegory: A tale in which characters, actions, or settings represent abstract ideas or moral qualities.

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