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OBJECTIVES: - TO DEFINE AND APPLY VOCABULARY
NEEDED FOR UNIT 4
English 9Day 1
What You Already Know
On your worksheet, match the words and the definitions of the words you should already know.
Vocabulary
Take notes on your worksheet about each of the vocabulary words.
Drama Play written for stage or film
Usually about a serious topic or situation
Tragedy Dramatic play that tells
the story of a character who meets an untimely and unhappy death or downfall often because of a character flaw or twist of fate
Theatrical ElementsElements employed by dramatists
and directors to tell a story on stage Elements include:
Make up Props Set Acting choices
Stage Directions: notes in a play that give information about how the play is to be performed
Usually in brackets and/or italicized [Enter Romeo]
DialogueWords spoken by characters in a
narrative
Monologue: a long speech delivered by a character to others on stage
Soliloquy: a long speech delivered by a character alone on stage
Aside: a short speech delivered by a character that is not meant to be heard by anyone except the audience
Dramatic Irony: when the audience knows more or something different than the characters on stage
Foils Characters whose actions or thoughts are the opposite of another character Highlights the attributes of characters
Stanza A “paragraph” of poetry
Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.
Stanza
Rhyme Scheme Pattern of end rhyme in a poem (Only
concerns the last word in each line)
Mark rhyme scheme by using a different letter of the alphabet for each new rhyme
who are you, little i(five or six years old) peering from some high window; at the gold
And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way. I doubted if I should ever come back.
Sonnet:
Sonnet: 14 line poem that rhymes in a certain
patternThe rhyme scheme of the English
sonnet is ALWAYS abab cdcd efef gg
Rhyme scheme identification
My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun, Coral is far more red than her lips’ red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak. Yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound. I grant I never saw a goddess go; My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground. And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare As any she belied with false compare.
Quatrain: 4 lines grouped together
by a certain rhyme pattern
Couplet: 2 lines that rhyme
Quatrain/couplet identification
My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun, Coral is far more red than her lips’ red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak. Yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound. I grant I never saw a goddess go; My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground. And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare As any she belied with false compare.
Quatrain 1
Quatrain 2
Quatrain 3
Couplet
AllusionReference to a well-known person, event, or place from history, music, art, or another literary work
Practice
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