3 Week Second Semester Flashcards
Important about poetry
Sound
Words you should write note/write the meaning of
Words you don’t know
Words you sort of know
Important words with more than one meaning, different parts of speech, or old context
What should you use for allusions
Encyclopedia or Internet
What patterns in a poem
Diction
Language
Style of speech, word choice
Goal of poetry analysis
Determine the theme
What is the theme
Poet’s purpose
Idea he wants to express
How to start searching for theme
Title
What info does the title give you
Expectations
Subject
Label as a literary type and its characteristics, how the author uses those rules
Second step of finding theme
Tone
About tone
Who is speaking and how
Structure
Organized Divided up Stanzas or numbered sections How they are related together Sentence by sentence, line by line Attitude
Sound and rhythm
Scan Accents Feet per line Length of words Alliteration Assonance Onomatopoeia Rhyme scheme Internal rhymes
Things about language and imagery
Symbol Images Metaphors Similes Personification Symbolism Analogies Conceit
Things to remember
Poems meaning as a whole
Synthesize ideas into one main idea
Foot
Unit of meter
What does Bryant see in to a waterfowl
Solitary bird migrating south
Does Bryant think about hunters
Yes
Did he say the eagle was going to the mountains
No
What does Bryan say protects the bird
higher power
Does the bird land
No
When will the bird rest
In the summer
Lesson of waterfowl
God will guide my steps
What does nature do in thanatopsis
Speaks to our different moods
What to do when worried about death
Go outside and listen to nature
What does Bryan say will happen to the soul
Doesn’t say anything
Bryan calls the earth
A great tomb, magnificent coach
Does Bryan mention Jesus’s return
No
How are we to live
Unfaltering trust
Dreaming
How to start reading a poem
Read it twice, aloud, listen to it
Note impressions
Washington Irving
The devil and tom walker
James fenimore cooper
The deerslayer
Leather stocking tales
William Cullen Bryant
To a waterfowl
Thanatopsis
Edgar Allan Poe
Fall of the house of usher
Oval portrait
The Raven
The bells
Irving’s first substantial writing, a history of NY, made him famous
False
Rip van winkle, most popular story in America
False
The devil was called
Old scratch
America’s most cherished myth
America is the land of fresh beginnings
Bumpo loved ___ and hated ___
Loved home people Delaware and hated Huron
Rivenoak known for, Panther known for
Brain, physical
In the early 1800s, America went from colonialism to
Nationalism
Farmers to
Manufacturers
Time of great
Expansion
Could become the greatest threat to divide the nation
Internal division
Classicism was replaced by
Romanticism
Classicism
Nature and human nature governed by unchanging laws
Reason over imagination and common over personal
Not intuition, humanitarian reform, or the mysterious
Romanticism
Emerson
Romanticism sees nature as
Organic
Constantly developing
Ever changing
First hero
Natty bump po
Teacher of spiritual truths
William Bryant
