Once upon a time...
(narrations def)
Who's talking?identify narrators
Mom, I'm a writer (poetic form def)
This or that (lit devices)
Excuses, excuses (identify def in poems)
200

I'm the one that tells the story...

Narrator

200

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

If this story is to be something resembling my book of deeds, we must begin at the beginning. At the heart of who I truly am. To do this, you must remember that before I was anything else, I was one of the Edema Ruh. 

First Person

200

In poetry... a single row of words

Line

200

Irony...what is it? Can you give an example?

Occurs when there is a discrepancy between what is said and what is meant

200

Identify the stanza length that appears in We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks

We real cool. We
Left school. We

Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We

Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We

Jazz June. We
Die soon.

Couplet, stanzas with 2 lines

300

Another name for a story

Narration

300

The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

You're still trying to decide who to be. The self you’ve been lately doesn’t make sense anymore; that woman died with Uche. She’s not useful, unobtrusive as she is, quiet as she is, ordinary as she is. Not when such extraordinary things have happened.

Second Person

300

In poetry... a bunch of lines together

Stanza

300

Tone...what is it?

Refers to the writer’s attitude or feelings conveyed in the poem

300

Identify the rhyme in the fragment below of One Art by Ellizabeth Bishop

The art of losing isn’t hard to master;

so many things seem filled with the intent

to be lost that their loss is no disaster.


Lose something every day. Accept the fluster

of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.

The art of losing isn’t hard to master.

master-disaster, intent-spent, fluster-master

400

How the story is told...

Narrative Style

400

Stardust by Neil Gaiman


There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart's Desire.

And while that is, as beginnings go, not entirely novel (for every tale about every young man there ever was or will be could start in a similar manner) there was much about this young man and what happened to him that was unusual, although even he never knew the whole of it.

The tale started, as many tales have started, in Wall.

Third Person, Omnsicient

400

Iambic, trochaic, and anapestic are...

Types of meter

400

What literary device is used in Preludes by T.S. Eliot?

The winter evening settles down

With smell of steaks in passageways.

Six o'clock.

The burnt-out ends of smoky days.

And now a gusty shower wraps

The grimy scraps

Of withered leaves about your feet

And newspapers from vacant lots;

The showers beat

On broken blinds and chimney-pots,

And at the corner of the street

A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps.

And then the lighting of the lamps.

Imagery

400

What is the subject of the next exceprt from a poem by Marianne Moore? And what literary device is it using?

I too, dislike it: there are things that are 

    important beyond all this fiddle.

Reading it, however, with a perfect

    contempt for it, one discovers that 

    there is in

it after all, a place for the genuine.
    Hands that can grasp, eyes
    that can dilate, hair that can rise
    if it must, these things are important 

The subject is Poetry, the divece can be either Irony or Imagery

500

The way of storytelling...

Narrative

500

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling

What was the good of magicking himself out of his room if Hogwarts would expel him for doing it? Yet life at Privet Drive had reached an all-time low. Now that the Dursleys knew they weren't going to wake up as fruit bats, he had lost his only weapon. Dobby might have saved Harry from horrible happenings at Hogwarts, but the way things were going, he'd probably starve to death anyway.

Third Person, Subjective

500

End-stopped and enjambment... what are we?

Line breaks

500

Birches by Robert Frost

When I see birches bend to left and right
Across the lines of straighter darker trees,
I like to think some boy's been swinging them.
But swinging doesn't bend them down to stay

Alliteration or repetition? Why?

Alliteration, because the "b" sound is repreated throughout the four lines

500

What type of line breaks can you identify in this fragment from Endymion by John Keats?

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:

Its loveliness increases; it will never

Pass into nothingness; but still will keep

A bower quiet for us, and a sleep

Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.

Endstopped and enjambment

600

On the third-person narrative... 

I'm the all-knowing; the one conveys thoughts and feelings; and the neutral one...

Omniscient

Subjective 

Objective

600

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

The people of the village began to gather in the square, between the post office and the bank, around ten o'clock; in some towns there were so many people that the lottery took two days and had to be started on June 25th. But in this village, where there were only about three hundred people, the whole lottery took less than two hours, so it could begin at ten o'clock in the morning and still be through in time to allow the villagers to get home for noon dinner.

Third Person, Objective

600

In poetry... difference between rhyme and rhytmn

Rhythm is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables, is the measured flow of words, determined by the syllables 

Rhyme is the correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, creates a musical effect, helps to unify a poem


600

As You Like It by William Shakespeare

"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts." 

Symbolism or metaphor?

Why?

Symbolism, because it uses the stage as an object that represents life

600

What's the meter in the next fragment from John Milton's Paradise Lost? And how many syllables are there in one line?

OF Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit 

Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tast 

Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, 

With loss of Eden, till one greater Man 

Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat,

Iamb, one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable.

5 metric feet with 10 syllables each

M
e
n
u