Mar

4

Onomatopoeia

March 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Objectives:

Know what onomatopoeia is.
Understand how “sound-words” can convey meaning that strictly denotative words can’t.

Warm-up:
Describe a situation or a time when words could not express how you really felt, for example when something amazing or devastating happened, or when you felt uncomfortable or “on the spot.” What kinds of words/sounds came out of your mouth by [...]

Mar

3

Audience vs. Speaker

March 3, 2008 | 1 Comment

Sometimes students have a hard time distinguishing the speaker (particularly of a poem) from the author. The fact that authors pick specific speakers for their work is an important literary technique to develop meaning; not only does it lend subtext via the point of view, but often satire and other techniques are predicated upon [...]