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1 December 2010: Do Now
END RHYME INTERNAL RHYME NEAR/SLANT RHYME ONOMATOPOEIA ALLITERATION
CONSONANCE
ASSONANCE
METAPHOR
SIMILE
HYPERBOLE
Which of the following literary terms and poetic conventions can you identify?
+END RHYMEA word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
I know you’re tired and just had lunch
But if you’re not awake in class
There’s a very good chance
You will not pass.
+INTERNAL RHYME
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line.
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
From “The Raven”
by Edgar Allan Poe
+NEAR/SLANT RHYME
a.k.a imperfect rhyme, close rhyme, slant rhyme
The words share EITHER the same vowel or consonant sound BUT NOT BOTH
ROSE
LOSE
Different vowel sounds (long “o” and “oo” sound)
Share the same consonant sound
+ALLITERATION
Consonant sounds repeated at the beginnings of words
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, how many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?
+CONSONANCESimilar to alliteration EXCEPT . . .
The repeated consonant sounds can be anywhere in the words
“silken, sad, uncertain, rustling . . “
+ASSONANCERepeated VOWEL sounds in a line or lines of poetry.
(Often creates near rhyme.)
Lake Fate BaseFade
(All share the long “a” sound.)
+ASSONANCE cont.
Examples of ASSONANCE:
“Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep.”
- William Shakespeare
2 December 2010: DO NOW
Does the type of language people use change based on…Location?Age?Social situations?Socio-economic status?Can you think of examples?
WHY or WHY NOT?
+The language used by Shakespeare in his plays is in one of three forms: BLANK VERSERHYMED VERSEPROSE
+BLANK VERSE = unrhymed iambic pentameter
Meter: a recognizable rhythm in a line of verse consisting of a pattern of regularly recurring stressed and unstressed syllables.
Iamb: a particular type of metric "foot" consisting of two syllable an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable ("da
DUM”) An unstressed syllable is conventionally represented by a
curved line resembling a smile (a U is as close as I can get here). A stressed syllable is conventionally represented by a / . Thus, an iamb is conventionally represented U / .
+METER
A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Meter occurs when the stressed and unstressed syllables of the words in a poem are arranged in a repeating pattern.
When poets write in meter, they count out the number of stressed (strong) syllables and unstressed (weak) syllables for each line. Then they repeat the pattern throughout the poem.
+Foot/feet: a metric "foot" refers to the combination of a strong stress and the associated weak stress (or stresses) that make up the recurrent metric unit of a line of verse.
FOOT - unit of meter.
A foot can have two or three syllables.
Usually consists of one stressed and one or more unstressed syllables.
TYPES OF FEET
The types of feet are determined by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Iambic - unstressed, stressed
Cowards die many times before their deaths
+ Kinds of Metrical Lines
monometer = one foot on a line
dimeter = two feet on a line
trimeter = three feet on a line
tetrameter = four feet on a line
Pentameter = five feet on a line=10 syllables
hexameter = six feet on a lineHeptameter = seven feet on a
lineoctometer = eight feet on a line
The valiant never taste of death but once.
+BLANK VERSE POETRY
Written in lines of iambic pentameter, but does NOT use end rhyme.
from Julius Ceasar
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men
should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
+Shakespearian Drama
Example of Blank Verse
U / U / U / U / U /
But soft.|What light| through yon|der win|dow breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet the sun!