English 9
Day 1
OBJECTIVES:
- TO DEFINE AND APPLY VOCABULARY
NEEDED FOR UNIT 4
What You Already Know
 On your worksheet, match the words and the
definitions of the words you should already know.
Vocabulary
 Take notes on your worksheet about each of the
vocabulary words.
 Drama
 Play
written for stage or film
Usually about a serious topic or situation
 Tragedy
 Dramatic
play that tells
the story of a character
who meets an untimely
and unhappy death or
downfall often because of
a character flaw or twist
of fate
 Theatrical Elements
 Elements
employed by dramatists and
directors to tell a story on stage
 Elements include:
Make up
Props
Set
Acting choices
Stage Directions:
notes in a play that give information
about how the play is to be performed
Usually in brackets and/or italicized
[Enter Romeo]
 Dialogue
 Words
spoken by characters in a narrative
Monologue:
a long speech delivered by a character to
others on stage
Soliloquy:
a long speech
delivered by a
character alone
on stage
Aside:
a short speech
delivered by a
character that is not meant to
be heard by anyone except the
audience
Dramatic Irony:
when the audience knows more or
something different than the
characters on stage
 Foils
Characters
whose actions or thoughts
are the opposite of another character
Highlights the attributes of
characters
Stanza
 Stanza
A
“paragraph” of poetry
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.
 Rhyme Scheme
 Pattern of end rhyme in a poem (Only
concerns the last word in each line)
 Mark rhyme scheme by using a different
letter of the alphabet for each new rhyme
who are you, little i
(five or six years old)
peering from some high
window; at the gold
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way.
I doubted if I should ever come back.
Sonnet:
 Sonnet:
 14 line poem that rhymes in a certain
pattern
 The rhyme scheme of the English sonnet is
ALWAYS
abab
cdcd efef gg
Rhyme scheme identification
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My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun,
Coral is far more red than her lips’ red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head
I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak. Yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound.
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground.
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.
 Quatrain:
 Couplet:
4 lines grouped together
by a certain rhyme pattern
2 lines that rhyme
Quatrain/couplet identification
 My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun,
Quatrain 1
 Coral is far more red than her lips’ red;
 If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
 If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head
 I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
 But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
Quatrain 2
 And in some perfumes is there more delight
 Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
 I love to hear her speak. Yet well I know
 That music hath a far more pleasing sound.
Quatrain 3
 I grant I never saw a goddess go;
 My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground.
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And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.
Couplet
 Allusion
Reference
to a well-known person,
event, or place from history, music,
art, or another literary work
Practice
 Complete the practice worksheet.