Senior
British Literature
Ms. McDermott Greaney
Block 5th and 6th (B)
March 23, 2016
On a piece of notebook paper answer the following questions. You
may use your novel but you will only have 15 minutes. Journals on
desk for check
1984 Quiz Section I chapters V-VII
1. Why is Newspeak essential to the success of this society?
2. Why does Winston think that his colleague, Symes will be
vaporized?
3. Why does Winston live alone?
4. Who are the “proles”? Why does Winston write, “If there is
hope, it lies in the proles”?
5. What is the Chestnut Tree Café? Who are Jones, Aaronson,
and Rutherford? What happens to them?
6. Winston writes, “I understand How. I do not understand
Why.” What does he mean by this?
Entry Task
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 William Wordsworth and How did
he contribute to the Romantic movement of poetry?
William Wordsworth (798 – 799)
4 significant facts on Wordsworth
Text Analysis/Stylistic Elements (799)
“The World is Too Much with Us” (807) TPSFASTT
Romantic – William Wordsworth
Characteristics of Romantic Poetry
Example
Emotion, Spontaneity, and Imagination
Importance of Individual’s Experiences
Nature as a Source of Inspiration
Emphasis on Everyday Life
Language Resembling Natural Speech
Mysterious, Exotic, or Supernatural
Elements
Text Analysis –
The World is Too Much
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)
Homework