Monday, September 28, 2009

10th Grade Homework Notes

In the comments section of this post, I have put the final answer for 'The Pied Piper' and the literary element notes for 'Winter Ocean.' Copy these down into your notes by tomorrow. The literary element notes will help you with the Winter Ocean comprehension questions.
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Miss Jones said...

4. Although most of the story in the poem is told in the third person objectively, who are the two speakers who add their experience in lines 127-145 and lines 236-255? What is the advantage of having these additional speakers tell part of the story?
The speaker in 127-145 is a rat who survived and who managed to escape when all the other rats died. The second speaker is a lame child who was not able to keep up with the other children and who, as a result, was the one child left in Hamelin. Both speakers are used to reveal why the rats and the children followed the piper’s song, but apart from that, they are quite different: they reveal a shift in tone from the first half of the poem, which is quite humorous, to the second half of the poem, which is very dark and depressing.

Monday, September 28, 2009
Miss Jones said...

Alliteration: the use of the initial consonant or vowel sounds that are the same, as in “tried and true” and “rather be safe than sorry.”

Consonance: the repetition of final consonant sounds as in first and last, and loves and lives. Rave and slave, almond diamond

Assonance: the repetition of like vowel sounds followed by unlike consonants, as in mile, time and mind, where the long I sound is repeated; beach, easy, and leaf where the long e sound is repeated, and said, ready, and regret where the short e sound is repeated. mace, rate, cake

Euphony: the use of sounds that create a soft, smooth, or pleasant effect. This is usually conveyed with the use of long vowels, and the consonants l, m, n, and r.
Many-maned
Rave, wave, slave
Male whales

Cacophony: the use of sounds that create a rough, harsh, unpleasant effect. This is conveyed primarily with the use of harsh, explosive consonant sounds like k, p, and t, and short vowels.

Scud thumper, tub
Portly pusher
Sky mocker
Shrub ruster

Monday, September 28, 2009
Miss Jones said...

Apostrophe: addressing an inanimate object as if it were alive, or addressing an absent person as if he were present.

Example: Ring, Bell, RING! I want school to be over!

O Shakespeare, if only you could see the talent of my 10th grade students!

O Pencil, how bright and straight you are!

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

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