Wednesay 9/18
COPY IN DO NOW/NOTES
Some words have a neutral denotation and some words have strong connotations.
RODENT RAT
To Laugh: Guffaw, Chuckle, Titter, Giggle, Cackle,
Snicker, Roar
Which word implies a little girl is laughing?
Which word connotes rudeness?
Which word has the connotation of evil?
Which word connotes light-hearted playfulness?

Self-Confident: Proud, Conceited, Egotistical, Stuck up, Haughty, Smug, Complacent, Arrogant,
Condescending
Which word has a positive connotation?
Which words have negative connotation?
House: home, hut, shack, mansion, cabin, chalet, abode, dwelling, shanty, domicile, residence
Which words have a positive connotation?
Which words have a negative connotation?
Which words are most neutral?
Which words connote poverty?
Which words connote wealth?
King: ruler, leader, tyrant , dictator, autocrat

What are the connotations of each of these words?
Old: mature, experienced, antique, relic, ancient, elderly, senior
What are the connotations of each of these words?
Fat: obese, plump, corpulent, portly, heavy, large, stout, rotund, burly, full-figured
What are the connotations of each of these words?

Tone Words:
What would be the tone of a newspaper article?
What would be the tone of a letter you wrote an ex who cheated on you?
What would be the tone of a poem you wrote to honor a relative who died?
What would be the tone of a greeting card you sent to your grandmother?
What would be the tone of a note you sent on
Valentine’s Day to that special someone?
What would be the tone of your English teacher if you didn’t do your poetry explication essay?
Choose TONE WORDs on handout for:

TEN TONE CHALLENGE! Choose TONE WORDs on handout for:
“Thirteen’s no age at all. Thirteen is nothing.” “Portrait of a Girl with Comic Book”
“My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun.” – “Sonnet
130” by Shakespeare
“An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king.” –
“England in 1819” by Shelley
“He clasps the crag with crooked hands.” – “The Eagle” by Tennyson
“If I should die, think only this of me. That there’s a corner of a foreign field that is forever England.” – “The
Soldier” by Rupert Brooke

“If we must die, let it not be like hogs.” - “If we must die” by Claude McKay
“Love sets you going like a fat gold watch.” – “Morning
Song” by Sylvia Plath
“Smiling, the boy fell dead.” – “Incident of the French
Camp” by Robert Browning
“You do me wrong to take me out of the grave
Thou art a soul in bliss
But I am bound upon a wheel of fire
That mine own tears do scald like molten lead.” - King
Lear by Shakespeare

THURSDAY
Copy down the words and recall definitions for today’s quiz: allusion, tone, tone shift, diction, connotation, irony, personification, alliteration, images
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MEANING MORE IMPORTANT THAN DEVICES.
Excellent Answers from AGE or DAY QUIZZES:

1. The poem “Portrait of a Girl with a Comic Book” uses metaphors to help describe the poem’s meaning by stating what being thirteen is not like. “It is not wit, or powder on the face” is an example because it is saying thirteen is not when girls use makeup or, in other words, are mature.
2.In the poem “Fifteen,” there is a tone shift from excitement to worry. “I admire all that pulsing gleam..” (line 6) shows that he was excited about seeing the motorcycle and imagining himself with it.
The tone shifts to worried when the speaker observes the man thrown from his bike: “He had blood on his hand...” (line 18).

3.In the poem, “Sunday Afternoon,” Levertov uses images throughout her poem. Line 13 captures the essence of this poem as it says that the girls are
“alive, alive, kicking a basketball, wearing other new dresses.” This image portrays excitement, which is the mood at the end of the poem.
2. “Neutral Tones”

We stood by a pond that winter day,
And the sun was white, as though chidden of God,
And a few leaves lay on the starving sod;
– They had fallen from an ash, and were gray.
Your eyes on me were as eyes that rove
Over tedious riddles of years ago;
And some words played between us to and fro
On which lost the more by our love.
The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing
Alive enough to have strength to die;
And a grin of bitterness swept thereby
Like an ominous bird awing….

Since then, keen lessons that love deceives,
And wrings with wrong, have shaped to me
Your face, and the God curst sun, and a tree,
And a pond edged with grayish leaves.