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Victorian Period Test Review. Test is this Friday Yes! I will post this on english12classroom.pbworks.com. What is on this test?. Some notes about the Victorian period. Lit Terms…YOU HAVE TO KNOW THEM!!!! Understanding the poem and if you TPCASTT the poems this will help you study
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Victorian Period Test Review Test is this Friday Yes! I will post this on english12classroom.pbworks.com
What is on this test? • Some notes about the Victorian period. • Lit Terms…YOU HAVE TO KNOW THEM!!!! • Understanding the poem and if you TPCASTT the poems this will help you study • Essay about the poem “Ulysses” • The question “bank” is every page of questions following each poem in the text. That is where all questions will come from for this test.
I have no clue how to study for this… • Start with the TP CASTT for each poem • Look at the terms and understand what they mean. Find examples in the poems they are matched with the poem to study. • We will go over the questions today. So keep CALM!!!!! Breathe AP kids…BREATHE!!!!
What is the time frame of the Victorian period? • Who is the queen and how large was her reign? • What were some of the terrible conditions that happened during Victoria’s reign? • What was the hope of the new emerging middle class? • What did the Victorians value according to there beliefs regarding government, family, women, and art?
“Lady of Shalott” by Lord Alfred Tennyson • Word music • Meter • Rhyme • Alliteration • Assonance • Plot • Climax
“Lady of Shalott” continued • Images • Contrasting images • Foreshadowing • Metrical form
“Ulysses” • Theme • Difference between theme and subject • Personification • Characterize
“Pied Beauty” by Gerald Hopkins • Assonance • Alliteration • Antithesis • Inverted word order • Unusual compound • Invented word • Praise poem
“ My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning • Dramatic monologue • Inferences • Tone
Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Browning • Petrarchan sonnet • Turn • Rhythm
“ To an Athlete Dying Young” by A.E. Housman • Couplet • Exact rhyme • Half rhyme • Alliteration
“ Dover Beach” by Matthew Arnold • Mood • Atmosphere • Image • Figure of speech
TPCASTT…What? • T title • P paraphrase • C connotation/and any other lit terms you see • A attitude • S shifts • T title • T theme
T title of the work and what it might tell you • P the literal meaning of the poem…what happened in your own words • C associations we have to words or images and any lit devices you see • A speaker’s attitude to the subject or the poet’s attiutde to the subject. Think tone • S shifts in focus or changes within the poem • T after all of this…does the title mean something more to you the reader • T what is the poem saying about the human experience? What did you learn?
TPCASTT “Lady of Shalott” • T • P • C • A • S • T • T
“Lady of Shalot” • By Lord Alfred Tennyson or if you don’t like his royal title, Alfred Tennyson.
“My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning • T • P • C • A • S • T • T
Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Browning • T • P • C • A • S • T • T
“ To an Athlete Dying Young” by A.E. Housman • T • P • C • A • S • T • T
“Pied of Beauty” by Gerald Hopkins • T • P • C • A • S • T • T
“Dover Beach” by Matthew Arnold • T • P • C • A • S • T • T
TPCASTT “Ulysses” • T • P • C • A • S • T • T
“Ulysses” by Alfred Tennyson • Personification • characterize
“Ulysses” the writing prompt • In an essay analyze the theme of this poem. Use passages from the poem to support your statement of theme and provide any literary devices that you find in the poem. • BE SURE YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT THIS QUESTION IS ASKING BEFORE YOU TRY TO WRITE THE ESSAY.
“Ulysses” • Essay plan….MAKE ONE!!!! • You need a thesis topic and you must support the poem with the text AND your own analysis.
Ulysses Essay: Writing plan template • Thesis statement: • 1# analysis of support PLUS text support • 2# analysis of support PLUS text support • 3# analysis of support PLUS text support • 4# analysis of support PLUS text support • Conclusion
YOUR TURN TO WRITE A PLAN. May bring plan BUT not whole essay to the test. • Thesis • 1# • 2# • 3# • 4# ( if you have it) • Conclusion