“The Raven” Scansion Day 2
6 March 2013
Miss Rice
Warm-Up
• What is the difference between line length and stanza
length?
Please take out your comma rules HW and scansion HW to
be checked
Agenda
• Scansion Review
• Scansion Practice (Stations)
• Comma Rules
CP Objectives 3/6
• To finish and practice comma rules
• To review and practice scansion
Warm-Up
• What is the difference between line length and stanza
length?
Scansion Categories
Bracket Together the Dif. Pieces of Scansion…
• Sound (repetition/hearing)
• Alliteration, consonance, assonance, onomatopoeia
• Rhyme
• End rhyme
• Rhyme scheme
• Internal rhyme
• Poem organization
• Stanza
• Meter
• Foot
Meter Steps Review
Scansion Handout
• Sample 1
• Rules
• Sample 2
Practicing Scansion
“Practicing Scansion” WS
• Work on example 1
• Review
Scansion Stations
• Station 1: Alliteration, Assonance, Consonance
• Worksheet
• Station 2: Meter
• Miss Rice
• “Practicing Scansion” WS examples 1 and 2
• Station 3: Rhyme Scheme and Stanza Length
• “Practicing Scansion” WS examples 1 and 2
• Station 4: Putting it All Together
• Mrs. Mohap
Review
• How did we do at the rhyme scheme and stanza length
station?
I will check the alliteration, assonance, and consonance
sheet for completion tomorrow!
“Quick Check” Slip
• Show me that you understand meter…
Comma Rules!
• #7
That’s right- THE LAST RULE!!!!!!!!!!
7. Using commas with quotations
• Commas set off a quotation from words used to
introduce or identify the source of the quotation.
• ***A comma following a quotation goes inside
the closing quotation mark.
7. Using commas with quotations
• Use a comma before the quotation marks and after a
phrase that introduces a quotation.
• A comma following a quotation goes inside the
closing quotation mark.
• Do not use commas if you are ending a quotation
with a question mark or exclamation point.
Practice…
7. Using commas with quotations
• “No one becomes depraved all at once,” wrote
Juvenal.
• A German proverb warns, “Go to law for a sheep and
lose your cow.”
• “All I know about grammar,” said Joan Didion, “is
its infinite power.”
• “Out, out, damned spot!” cries Lady Macbeth.
Comma HW Review
• Sections 1-3 answers…
Homework
• Prefixes HW due tomorrow
• Finish assonance, consonance, alliteration WS
• Mark the meter for examples 1 and 2 on the “More
Practice with Scansion” WS
• Dark Romanticism Test Friday
• “This I Believe” essay due Monday
Tomorrow we will hand back essays and introduce the
TIB presentation