Week 27: Tuesday, 2/16

Open

• This week, Poetry:
• Memorization (volunteers on block day)
• Project Sources (window opens on block day and closes one week after)
• Rewrite (due block day) 
• Will you be ready for block day quiz on Pride and Prejudice?

• Begin reading pp. 785 ff. and taking notes: answer the questions below.

Perrine's Poetry Ch. 5: Figurative Language 1

• Read and answer the following questions for the introduction:
• What is figurative language, more narrowly?
• What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor?
• What is the difference between an implied and a named figure?
• What is personification?
• What is apostrophe?
• What are metonymy and synecdoche? 
• What are four reasons that figures can be effective? 
• Oral discussion:
• "The Guitarist Tunes Up"
• "Hound" 

HW: Read all the poems one time from chapter 5.  You do not need to answer any questions yet. Come to class with your own instead.  Annotate when you're pleased or perplexed.