Senior
British Literature
Ms. McDermott Greaney
Block 5th and 6th (B)
March 25, 2016
Respond to the following questions. Include key words and direct
evidence from the novel.
1. According to the appendix, what was the purpose of Newspeak?
2. What are the three different levels of vocabulary in Newspeak?
3. What are the two outstanding characteristics of Newspeak
grammar?
4. A great many of the B-vocabulary words were “euphemisms”.
What are euphemisms? Why would a government want to use
them?
5. How does Newspeak deal with the matter of sex?
6. According to the appendix, totalitarian governments like to use
abbreviations. Why is this the case?
7. Why would it be nearly impossible to translate a document like
the “Declaration of Independence” into Newspeak?
Entry Task
..\..\..\1984\Newspeak.ppt
There will be a Section I and Newspeak test on Tuesday.
Newspeak
Romantic (Poetry) Features
• Embraced imagination and naturalness.
• Preference for personal poetry that focused on experiences and
emotions in simple, unadorned language.
• Used lyric form to express feeling, self-revelation, and
imagination.
• Poets adopted a democratic attitude towards their audiences.
• Focused on the past or inner dream world to escape the ugly
industrial age
• Belief in individual liberty; rejection of tyranny
• Fascinated by the ways nature and the human mind “mirrored”
each other’s creative properties.
• Use of the supernatural
• Search/quest for “true” beauty
Romantics (add to notes)
Cornell Notes
Essential Question: Who is John Keats and How did he
contribute to the Romantic movement of poetry?
John Keats (878
4 significant facts on Keats
What is an Ode? (879)
How does Keats use imagery? (879)
What is inverted syntax? (879)
“Ode on a Grecian Urn” (884) TPSFASTT
Romantic – John Keats
Romantic "odes"
• Highly lyrical (emotional) poem in which the author speaks to a person or thing
absent or present
• An author’s deep meditation on the person or object
• Connection between subject of ode and nature
• A special insight at the end of the poem
In a small group create a comic strip that shows the above elements – (example)
Comic Strip
Title
Does the title give a clue about the poem’s content?
Paraphrase
Put into your own words the literal action of the poem. What is this poem
about?
Speaker Who is the speaker? Are the speaker and poet the same? Who is the
audience. What is the poet’s purpose?
Structure
Is this free verse (open) or structured (closed)? What is the form?
How does it affect the poem’s meaning? Is it important to the poet’s message?
Figurative What poetic language is used: simile, metaphor, imagery, alliteration,
etc…
Language
Attitude What is the speaker’s attitude towards the subject of the poem?
(Tone)
Shifts
Make note of a shift (change) in speaker, attitude, rhythm, punctuation,
stanza length,
rhyme
Title
Examine the title again, this time trying to figure out its deeper meaning
beyond just
being a title.
Theme What the poem is about (subject) + what the poet is saying about the subject
= Theme State the theme as a complete sentence. It is never one word.
TPSFASTT
Turn in your Entry Task and poems
H/W 1984 read w/journal entries (2 quotes and 2 higher level
questions)
Test on Tuesday on Section I and Newspeak. Unit test on
Romantics on Thursday.
Homework