Poetry Quiz II

We will have our second poetry quiz Monday 10/4 (50 pts.). This will be mainly a multiple choice exercise, and you will need to know the following terms to do well on it:

Assonance
Alliteration
Synesthesia
Onomatopoeia
Ceasura
Rhyme
Meter
Tone
Consonance

The link I posted earlier will help, as will the glossary of terms on p. 1660 of Perrine's. Re-reading chapters 10-13 won't hurt either.

Poetry Quiz #1

We will have our first poetry quiz on Tuesday 9/28 (50 pts.). This will be mainly a multiple choice exercise, and you will need to know the following terms to do well on it:

Simile
Apostrophe
Metaphor
Personification
Metonymy
Allusion
Paradox

The link I posted earlier will help, as will the glossary of terms on p. 1660 of Perrine's. Re-reading chapters five and seven won't hurt either.

Poetry Paper #1

Using the suggestions on page 8 of “Writing about Literature” in Perrine’s, write a paper comparing and contrasting any two poems in the poetry section of the text. (pp 647-1024) Although neither is a comparison/contrast essay, reading the sample papers on pp 46-52 might be helpful. This paper should be a minimum of 500 words, typed and double-spaced. We are going to workshop this paper, so you need to keep to the following schedule:

Poems and topic of paper selected and e-mailed to me – Monday 9/20
Thesis and outline of paper – Thursday 9/24
First draft of paper – Monday 9/27
Second draft – Wednesday 9/29
Final draft – Friday 10/1

Poetic Terms Site

Bookmark the site below and refer to it regularly throughout the remainder of the unit.

http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/glossary_of_poetic_terms.htm

Poetry Reading Assignemt

The poetry section of Perrine's begins on page 645 and is divided into 16 chapters. Each of those chapters consists of anywhere from 3-9 pages of introductory/explanatory narrative (with a few poems included as examples), a textbox with the heading "REVIEWING CHAPTER ____", and several pages of poems and critical reading questions. By Wednesday September 15 you need to have read the narrative parts of each of those chapters. You should read and consider the poems included as examples, but you do not need to answer the questions or read any of the poems that appear at the end of the respective chapters.

Allusions Assignment

Many literary works in the western tradition allude to mythological and biblical figures and stories that were well known to all literate people through much of our history. Below you will find an assignment that is designed to help you familiarize yourselves with some of the most prominent of these.

What I want you each to do is complete each of your identifications in a word file. Make sure that you use the same format as the sample that is provided below. Please write in complete, coherent sentences and proof-read/spell-check your entries. When you have all eight in final, clean-copy form, paste them into a post on this blog. These will be graded for 5 points per identification, and they must be posted by the end of the school day on Wednesday September 8.
EXAMPLE:

Cerberus – In Greek mythology, Cerberus was the hound of Hades (God of the underworld) who had three heads, a dragon-tale, and snakes down his back and mane. He permits all spirits to enter the underworld, but none to return. He is the origin of the term “hounds of hell” (i.e., Vincent Price in Michael Jackson’s Thriller). Cerberus is overcome several times in mythology and literature, and so symbolizes both the horror of death and hell and the triumph of light over dark, goodness over evil, and reason/cunning over brute force.

Abraham and Isaac - NA
Absalom - JB
Achilles - MB
Adonis - PF
Agamemnon - CH
Antigone - PO
Atalanta - CR
Atlas - BS
Cain and Abel -LW
Cassandra - NA
Cupid and Psyche - JB
Daedalus and Icarus - MB
Daniel (in the lion’s den) - PF
Daphne - CH
David and Bathsheba - PO
Dionysus (Bacchus) - CR
“Eye for an eye…” - BS
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse - LW
Garden of Gethsemane - NA
Good Samaritan - JB
Hercules (12 labors of) - MB
Herod - PF
Hyacinth - CH
Jacob and Esau - PO
Jacob’s ladder - CR
Jezebel – BS
John the Baptist - LW
Jonah - NA
Judas Iscariot - JB
Laius -MB
Last Supper - PF
Lazarus - CH
Leda (and the Swan) - PO
Lot/Lot’s wife - CR
Magi - BS
Mammon - LW
Mary Magdalene - NA
Medusa - JB
Midas - MB
Minotaur - PF
Moses – CH
Narcissus - PO
Nero (fiddled while Rome burned) -CR
Noah and the flood - BS
Odysseus - LW
Oedipus - NA
Pandora - JB
Persephone – MB
Perseus - PF
Pharisees - CH
Philistines - PO
Pontius Pilate – CR
Procrustes - BS
Prodigal Son - LW
Prometheus - NA
Pygmalion - JB
Pyrrhus - MB
Rachel and Leah - PF
Romulus and Remus - CH
Salome - PO
Samson and Delilah - CR
Scylla and Charybdis - BS
Sermon on the Mount - LW
Sisyphus - NA
Sodom and Gomorrah - JB
Solomon (the wise) - MB
Styx (not the band!) - PF
Sword of Damocles - CH
Tantalus - PO
Theseus - CR
Tower of Babel - BS
Trojan horse - LW

2010 Summer Reading Assignment

Welcome to AP Literature and Composition. Over the summer, you will be required to read two books—please note the appropriate due dates:

1. How to Read Literature like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster: the ultimate cheat sheet for students. It gives you the inside scoop on how your teachers figure out all that meaning stuff about literature. It divides major concepts (symbol, archetype, allusion, pattern, etc.) up into small, easy-to-digest chapters and relates them to popular movies, TV, and literature (look for references to mythology, The Simpsons, Cinderella, The Great Gatsby, The Odyssey, Oedipus, Gilligan’s Island, the Bible, Mark Twain, Shakespeare, and Ghostbusters).

Although you will be expected to read the whole book this fall, focus on the following chapters: Introduction, 5-7, 11-15, 19, and 25.

2. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky: Fyodor Dostoevsky’s psychological novel probes the inner workings of the criminal mind both before and in the aftermath of premeditated murder. This novel of realism takes the reader into the innermost thoughts of the central character and also probes the central philosophical issues of good and evil.

Assignments and Due Dates

Postings are due by midnight on the following dates:

August 10—Parts I-III

August 25—Parts IV-Epilogue

By each due date, you need post at least twice:

1 original post analyzing a specific quote with page number from the assignment. Your analysis must:

Be a minimum of 200 words, not including the quote.
Must tie the quote to an idea from How to Read Literature like a Professor. (i.e., "Yes, She's a Christ Figure, Too," or "Geography Matters...")
Should not be a paraphrase or summary of the quote—think significance.
Cannot repeat or regurgitate ideas from another student’s post.
Stay within the assigned section.

1 response to another student’s post that must:
Be a minimum of 100 words, not including the textual support.
Must use textual references for support.
Must be an actual response to what someone said—“I agree with Tom” is not sufficient.

Feel free to respond and continue the discussion in addition to your required posts. Just keep the discussion on topic and handle disagreements maturely.