V4 - Vocabulary test / Poetry / reading practice week 50

• Middelbare school

Today's objectives

• Vocabulary test (resit 1&2 or txt 3&4)

• Poetry (First love, A txt msg pom)

• Practice for Reading test (2nd opportunity) next week Monday 
  

Work to have completed by this Monday:

• Text 3 - Fact Checking Fake News - ex. D/E/F (and I)
  

• Grammar review SOM- (https://www.english-4u.de/tenses_exercises.html -> intermediate + advanced levels)
  

Today's objectives

1) Funeral Blues - W.H. Auden 

2) Understanding of literary devices 

Funeral Blues - W.H. Auden

• Well-known poem 
  

• Elegy
  

      heroic couplets (rhyming pairs of verse)

     written in honor of someone deceased. 

     4 stanzas (=group of lines forming a unit in a poem), 4 lines per stanza, 

     fixed rhyme scheme AABB = heroic couplet

We'll discuss the following literary devices in the poem:

a) setting

b) symbolism 

c) imagery 

d) hyperbole

e) assonance

Literary Devices

Funeral Blues"

• Alliteration
  
• Onomatopoeia
  
• Assonance 
• Hyperbole
• Symbolism
  
• Setting

Setting

Time and place where the action of the poem happens

What is the setting of "Funeral Blues"?

Symbolism

 An object representing another, to give an entirely different meaning that is 

much deeper/ more significant.

Symbolism in Funeral Blues

Q 1) What does it mean to "Stop the Clock", "Cut off the phone", "Silence the piano" ?

Q 2) What do "black cotton gloves" symbolize?

Q 3) "He was my North, my South, my East and West" - what do these words symbolize?

Imagery

The use of particular words that create a visual representation of ideas in our minds (symbols, metaphors, simile)

Q: What comes to mind when you hear the words "blues", "moaning", and "muffled drum"?

Hyperbole 

A hyperbole is an unreal exaggeration to emphasize a real situation.

Common hyperboles (every-day use):

1. She's so heavy, she weighs a ton!
   
2. I'm dying of shame!
   
3. What a dumb action: you must have a pea-sized brain!
   
4. It took him ages to solve the problem
   

Hyperbole in Funeral Blues

A hyperbole is an unreal exaggeration to emphasize a real situation.

Q 1) What are examples of hyperboles in the poem "Funeral Blues"?

Q 2) Can you find a stanza (= unified group of lines in a poem)  with only hyperboles? 

Q 3) What kind of feeling does exaggeration create? Which grammatical form does the narrator use in the first two stanzas to help create this kind of feeling?

Assonance

The repetition of a vowel sound or diphthong in non-rhyming words

Q. Can you find an example of a vowel sound that is repeated in the stanzas of "Funeral Blues"?

Other literary devices 

Q. Can you find any other literary devices in the poem?

First Love

1) Who is the narrator? What is he/she doing in Physics?

2) What happened to him/her in that class?

3) What was the effect of this behaviour in Physics?

4) What does "But had by heart what Archimedes proves"mean?

5) Who does the narrator marry?

A txt msg poem

 A text message poem  

His eyes are bunsen burner blue / 

his hair like iron filings / 

with the current going through. / 

I sit by him in chemistry / 

 my atoms split / 

when he smiles at me.