Prosody
Name three words that rhymes with the word "love"
glove, dove, shove, clove...
What could be a simile of stars?
*with sufficient explanations
As bright as shining pearls; As small as a mote; shine like diamonds on a silk; etc.
In the following 2 verses:
White is a cool breeze,
Wind on my cheek
Name two imagery effects
Visual, feel
Name three cultures most often used by allusions in 10 seconds
Greek mythology, Roman mythology, and the Bible
How many sonnets did Shakespeare write?
A. 120 B. 118 C. 78 D. 154
D. 154
Give 5 examples of onomatopoeia
bang, whip, splash, hiss, clang
Compare the similarities and differences between similes and metaphors
Similarity: Both figures of speech compare an object to another object in some similar traits.
Differences: Metaphors use direct comparison, while similes use words such as "as" or "like"; there is also one special kind of metaphor: personification
In the following poem:
I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
Name all imageries
kinesthetic: eaten; taste: sweet; feel: cold
In the previous allusions we have learnt, who is related to this picture?
The Odysseus
Name all elements required to create a haiku and specify their numbers
3 verses, 1st and 3rd verse with 5 syllables, 2nd verse with 7 syllables (17 syllables in total); everyday life (2 contrasting images); 1 seasonal word (kigo); 1 moment of enlightenment (satori)
In the poem "Speech to the Young," find all alliterations
Say to them,
say to the down-keepers,
the sun-slappers,
the self-soilers,
the harmony-hushers,
"Even if you are not ready for day
it cannot always be night."
You will be right.
For that is the hard home-run.
Live not for battles won.
Live not for the-end-of-the-song.
Live in the along.
sun-slappers; self-soilers; hard home-run; the-end-of-the-song
In the following poem:
A beast with eyes of moonlight,
Fur like knotted wool.
The teeth like pearls, so bright,
He slips away, a shadow.
Count and explain the metaphors and similes; what is the creature in this poem?
2 metaphors and 2 similes
fur -> knotted wool (simile)
teeth -> pearls (simile)
the beast -> shadow (metaphor)
eyes -> moon/moonlight (metaphor)
the creature: wild cat
Which season is this couplet talking about:
After one night of wind and showers,
How many are the fallen flowers?
Spring
In the following poem:
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
What's the allusion and what is the effect?
The allusion is the biblical garden of Eden, and it symbolizes that everything, including the beautiful Eden garden, won't stay forever.
Name all methods of prosody (except euphony and cacophony) and figures of speech in the sonnet 120 and explain
That you were once unkind befriends me now,
And for that sorrow which I then did feel
Needs must I under my transgression bow,
Unless my nerves were brass or hammer’d steel.
For if you were by my unkindness shaken,
As I by yours, you’ve pass’d a hell of time;
And I, a tyrant, have no leisure taken
To weigh how once I suffer’d in your crime.
O, that our night of woe might have remember’d
My deepest sense, how hard true sorrow hits,
And soon to you, as you to me then, tender’d
The humble salve which wounded bosoms fits!
But that your trespass now becomes a fee;
Mine ransoms yours, and yours must ransom me.
alliteration (how hard...hits); assonance (night...might); metaphor (how hard true sorrow hits)
What is the rhythm in the following verse:
Double double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Trochaic tetrameter
In the poem "City Limits," how does the figures of speech introduce the purpose of the poem?
You’re like wildwood at the edge of a city.
And I’m the city: steam, sirens, a jumble
of lit and unlit windows in the night.
You’re the land as it must have been
and will be—before me, after me.
It’s your natural openness
I want to enfold me. But then
you’d become city; or you’d hide
away your wildness to save it.
So I stay within limits—city limits,
heart limits. Although, under everything,
I have felt unlimited earth. Unlimited you.
The main figures of speech used here is metaphor. The poet uses the metaphor of city and city edges to describe the intimacy and love he aspired between him and the person he loved
Analyze how the kinetic and kinesthetic imagery contributes to the following poetry:
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
and twinkle on the Milky Way,
They stretched in never-ending line
along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
tossing their heads in sprightly dance
Kinetic words such as “fluttering,” and “dancing” are used to describe daffodils' elegant movements. The second stanza forms a contrast of metaphor to the first stanza as how daffodils grow in the fields, "stretched" and "twinkled" in the fields like stars in the sky (their physical movement)
Write a couplet using the allusions we have learnt (should rhyme）
Arrogance will drag you down,
Just as Icarus fell and drowned
Analyze the satori in the haiku below:
The shell of a cicada
it sang itself
utterly away
(time limit: 1 minute)
The kigo in this haiku is summer, represented by the cicada. The satori here is how summertime easily fades when the cicada shell is gone. It expresses a sense of sadness of how summertime flies
You want to go to the toilet.
Create two iambic pentameters about your situation
Shall I go to the toilet by myself?
My bladder won't allow me wait for secs.
Think of a couplet with a metaphor and a simile (with a rhyme)
The eyes of pearl on her face,
The grace encircles, as a necklace.
Write 2 logical iamb pentameters (a couplet) with the following requirements:
1. Kinetic movements
2. Topic of nature
He rushes down the hills under the sun
Cicadas cries and water stream collides
Which line is using the allusion is being used here in the Sonnet 18? If so, why?
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st
time limit: 1 minute
"thou wander’st in his shade" is an allusion to the Psalm 23, in which there is one sentence that says, "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death." They all have the same meaning of shade/shadow representing death.
Write a haiku commenting on SFLS canteen food (follows the syllable form strictly, explain the kigo and the satori)
(3 minutes)
Sample Response:
Students spit the dish
in the canteen, but men wear
suits have good ice creams.
kigo: ice cream---summer
satori: people who manage the school don't care about the quality of students' life while they should.