English 9 Day 1

1. English 9Day 1 Objectives: - To define and apply vocabulary needed for unit 4

2. What You Already Know On your worksheet, match the words and the definitions of the words you should already know.

3. Vocabulary Take notes on your worksheet about each of the vocabulary words.

4. Drama • Play written for stage or film • Usually about a serious topic or situation

5. Tragedy • Dramatic play that tells the story of a character who meets an untimely and unhappy death or downfall often because of a character flaw or twist of fate

6. Theatrical Elements • Elements employed by dramatists and directors to tell a story on stage • Elements include: • Make up • Props • Set • Acting choices

7. Stage Directions: • notes in a play that give information about how the play is to be performed • Usually in brackets and/or italicized • [Enter Romeo]

8. Dialogue • Words spoken by characters in a narrative

9. Monologue: • a long speech delivered by a character to others on stage

10. Soliloquy: • a long speech delivered by a character alone on stage

11. Aside: • a short speech delivered by a character that is not meant to be heard by anyone except the audience

12. Dramatic Irony: • when the audience knows more or something different than the characters on stage

13. Foils • Characters whose actions or thoughts are the opposite of another character • Highlights the attributes of characters

14. Stanza • Stanza • A “paragraph” of poetry Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.

15. Rhyme Scheme • Pattern of end rhyme in a poem (Only concerns the last word in each line) • Mark rhyme scheme by using a different letter of the alphabet for each new rhyme And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way. I doubted if I should ever come back. who are you, little i (five or six years old) peering from some high window; at the gold

16. Sonnet: • Sonnet: • 14 line poem that rhymes in a certain pattern • The rhyme scheme of the English sonnet is ALWAYS • ababcdcdefefgg

17. Rhyme scheme identification My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun, Coral is far more red than her lips’ red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak. Yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound. I grant I never saw a goddess go; My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground. And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare As any she belied with false compare.

18. Quatrain: 4 lines grouped together by a certain rhyme pattern Couplet: 2 lines that rhyme

19. Quatrain/couplet identification My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun, Coral is far more red than her lips’ red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak. Yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound. I grant I never saw a goddess go; My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground. And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare As any she belied with false compare. Quatrain 1 Quatrain 2 Quatrain 3 Couplet

20. Allusion • Reference to a well-known person, event, or place from history, music, art, or another literary work

21. Practice Complete the practice worksheet.