polysyndeton Sentence which uses a conjunction with NO commas to separate the items in a series X and Y and Z PROTAGONIST THE CENTRAL CHARACTER IN A STORY THE ONE WHO INITIATES OR DRIVES THE ACTION ID: 693893
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Literary terms 5
Polysyndeton -RomanceSlide2
polysyndeton
Sentence which uses a conjunction with NO commas to separate the items in a series.
X and Y and ZSlide3
PROTAGONIST
THE CENTRAL CHARACTER IN A STORY, THE ONE WHO INITIATES OR DRIVES THE ACTION;
HERO OR THE ANTI-HERO
GUESS WHO?Slide4
Others that you’ve met…Slide5
Hamartia
Tragic flawSlide6
PUN
A PLAY ON WORDS BASED ON THE MULTIPLE MEANINGS OF A SINGLE WORD OR ON WORDS THAT SOUND ALIKE BUT MEAN DIFFERENT THINGS.Slide7
PUN
•I would like to go to Holland someday. Wooden
shoe?Slide8
QUATRAIN
A POEM CONSISTING OF FOUR LINES OR A 4-LINE STANZASlide9
REFRAIN
A WORD, PHRASE, LINE, OR GROUP OF LINES THAT IS REPEATED FOR EFFECT SEVERAL TIMES IN A POEMSlide10
BALLADS are sometimes written in quatrains. They also use refrains.
Please read the following ballads: “Lord Randall
” -
http://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l-bCT0OedQ
“Edward, Edward”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCkcYYQv3soSlide11
Assignment # 1
Write a reader response on the ballads (one page minimum). You may comment on theme, dialect, the singing of the ballad (its intended medium), etc. Please format according to MLA guidelines. This assignment is due on the day of the literary terms quiz. I will grade your writing, so please edit and revise before submission. Thanks!Slide12
RHYTHM/ POETIC FEET
The rise and fall of the voice produced by the alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables in language.
Please visit the following site:
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/570/03
/Slide13Slide14Slide15
Assignment 2
Please answer the following; use the previously cited web page for information. The internet will provide you with words that fit the specific patterns. On the literary terms exam, you will be responsible for matching the name with the pattern. Slide16Slide17
1. Iambic
1.
Write the pattern.
2.
Write two words that use the iambic pattern.
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2. TROCHAIC
Write the pattern:
Write two words using the trochaic pattern
:
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3. SPONDAIC
1. Pattern:
2. Write two words:
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4. ANAPESTIC
1
.
WRITE THE PATTERN.
2.
WRITE TWO WORDS USING THIS PATTERN.
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5. DACTYLIC
1.
PATTERN:
2. TWO WORDS:
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RHETORIC
Art of effective communication, especially persuasive discourseSlide23
RHETORICAL QUESTION
A question asked for effect, and not actually requiring an answerSlide24
ROMANCE- popular in Middle Ages
In general, a story in which an
idealized hero
or
heroine
undertakes a quest
or a challengeSlide25
Romances involve
Journeys
or
pilgrimagesUse the
peregrinatus (peregrinations
) theme (theme that life is a pilgrimage and that we are all pilgrimsSlide26
Additional characterist
ics:
Involves magicSlide27
Involves a willing suspension of disbelief
http://www.princeton.edu/~
achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Suspension_of_disbelief.html
Read the definition and Coleridge’s Original Formulation- take notes.Slide28
Romance
Involves chivalrySlide29
In Romances…
Women are held in high regard, put up on a pedestalSlide30
Romance
Involve courtly love---Slide31Slide32Slide33Slide34
Involve unrequited love or lover’s triangleSlide35Slide36
Number symbolism- five
Known as the five-knot or endless knot
Image on the outside of Sir Gawain’s shieldSlide37
Please read the first stanza from this excerpt from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Notice all references to the number five.
http://csis.pace.edu/grendel/projf984b/Text.htmSlide38
Number symbolism - three
It saluted Bedivere three times and then sank beneath the surface…Slide39
Please read
“The Wife of Bath’s Tale” from
The Canterbury Tales
Find elements of a medieval romance in the story.
Answer questions that accompany the story.Slide40Slide41
Bonus:
The Cleric’s Tale
The Franklin’s Tale
Due date and materials available in the classroom.