Literature 6 - Introduction speech questions/ answers and speech outline are due Monday, 4/3.
Please scroll down for the vocab words for 6, 7, and 8.
Literature 8 - Monday, 4/24 - Poetry vocab test on connotation - rhythm.
Literature 7 - Tuesday, 4/25 - Drama vocab test on costuming - flashpot.
Literature 6 - Monday, 4/24 - Vocab test on the bullets for the words "Legend" and "Myth."
Poetry Vocabulary
Connotation: Emotional impact attached to words beyond their literal
meaning.
Paraphrase: Putting something into your own words. In poetry, you lose
the musical quality and rhyme
Prose: The ordinary form of written language. Everyday speech.
*Personification: Giving human qualities or characteristics to inanimate
objects or animals.
Narrative poem: A poem that tells a story in poetic form. Contains plot,
setting, characters, etc. Relies on rhythm and rhyme. Organized in stanzas.
Stanzas: Groups of lines that form units in a poem.
Ballad:
A Narrative poem that tells a simple and dramatic story. Intended to be sung or
recited. Has strong rhythms and rhymes.
*Juxtaposition: The placing of two images or ideas side by side allowing
the reader to make the comparison. Not a direct comparison.
Rhythm: A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in the
lines of a poem. Usually contributes to meaning.
Costuming: The way the characters are dressed. Can be used to create
mood, illusion, and set the piece in a particular time.
Plot: What happens in the story, may not be sequential. Has to
hold the audience’s attention, visually interesting.
Theme: A universal truth about people – the things they do, the
way they are, that can be applied to your life. Not a dippy moral.
Infer: A reasonable conclusion one can draw from facts or
evidence given.
Aside: A character speaks directly to the audience. Through
asides, characters in a play reveal directly to the audience their thoughts or
other characters’ thoughts. Usually delivered in confidence pretending that
other characters cannot hear.
Nota Bene, N.B.: Note well. Used to call attention to something
important.
Flash-pot: A device that creates a burst of fire and smoke that
creates a magical effect.
6th grade vocab:
Legend:
·
Traditional story
about the past
·
based on real
people/events
·
passed down by word of
mouth.
·
Details increasingly
exaggerated.
·
Have fantastic
details, larger than life characters, amazing feats.
·
Reveals culture's attitudes/values.
Myth:
·
Stories about gods and
heroes.
·
Deals with
right/wrong.
·
Explains world in
human terms.
·
Explains natural
occurrences.
