Monday, 1/25/16

 

Monday, January 25th - Winter Sports Rally (schedule below)

* Open

• Compose Four Lines Or More For Someone; Focus on Connotation
• Check these out:
• Coastal Commission Poetry (Jan. 30): Theme: "California Coast"
• Farm Bureau Poetry (Feb. 24): Theme: "Grown in Santa Cruz and the Pajaro Valley"

* Perrine's Poetry Ch. 3: Denotation and Connotation

• Example Poems
• "Naming of Parts" pg. 764
• "The World is Too Much With us" pg. 766

HW: Read the last three poems in the chapter.  Choose one to answer all the questions for.

• To get full credit
• Answer each question considerately in complete sentences.
• Answer on paper. 

* Per. 4 Only

• Suspense is often created through mystery or a dilemma. 

• Surprise ending: fair, or plot manipulation (deus ex machina)?
• closed vs. open/indeterminate ending
• artistic unity: all aspects (plot, description, word choice, setting, irony, action) of the story support the central purpose 
• chance = occurrence of an event with no apparent cause (killing albatross)
• coincidence = two events with a peculiar correspondence (both cars on same lonely road in "A Good Man is Hard to Find")
• Denotation and connotation