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

Complete the practice worksheet.