Literature & Composition Chapter Two

What is a close reading?
What is the role of observation?
What is a graphic organizer? How might it be helpful?

Tone:
Mood:
Narrator:
Setting:
Themes:

Two works mentioned: Excerpt from Willa Cather's My Antonia and A. E. Housman's poem, "To an Athlete Dying Young."

The Elements of Style:

Diction
Denotation
Connotations
Formal or Informal Diction
Figurative Language
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Analogy
Extended Metaphor
Overstatement or Hyperbole
Understatement
Paradox
Irony
Verbal Irony
Imagery
Syntax

Inverted syntax
Tone
Mood

Abstract v. Concrete Diction

Rhyme:
Free Verse:
End Rhyme:
Internal Rhyme:
Eye (or sight) rhymes:
Near Rhyme:

Quatrain
Couplet
Meter
Feet
Iambic meter
Iamb
Iambic pentameter
Iambic Tetrameter
Blank Verse
Form: conventional or unconventional?
How does the structure relate to the meaning of the poem?
Look for sentence patterns
Look for patterns of imagery
See how the stanzas interact

What are the two types of sonnets and what are the differences?

Other traditional forms;
Elegy
Lyric
Ode
Villanelle

Poetic Syntax

Enjambment
Caesura

Sound of poems--musical quality

Alliteration
Assonance
Onomatopoeia
Cadence

Know the kinds of questions to ask.

Oxymoron
Parallel Structure
Literary Elements
Annotation

Exploratory Writing. Consider graphic organizer.

Thesis statement.
What to do and what to avoid

Caring about your topic, investing in it.

Integrating Quotations
Documenting Sources.

Comparison / Contrast Essay

Develop a thesis statement

Text-by-Text Organization
Element-by-Element Organization