Please turn in your homework.
Take the next 15-20 minutes to read the poems by Ralph Fletcher: Ordinary Things.
Depending on the weather, we will be taking a little field trip today. Please bring your journals and a writing utensil with you. Please listen to instructions.
When we return from our "trip" please use the time in the lab to write 5 short poems with ordinary things as their subject. Form and structure (line, sound, tone, diction, etc.) is up to you. Write each poem in the same file. Call these drafts ORDINARY THINGS
SOME KEY POETIC TERMS YOU NEED TO KNOW:
Diction: word choice. Select words in your poem carefully to carry the most meaning. All words have a denotative meaning and a connotative meaning. Understatement, euphemism, and other rhetorical strategies may be used to affect a poem's diction. Speaking to your elderly grandparents uses a different diction than speaking to your "homies".
Voice: The agent or "speaker" speaking through the poem. Also called the "persona".
Tone: Often the attitude of your speaker or the voice. Identified in a poem by diction.
Take the next 15-20 minutes to read the poems by Ralph Fletcher: Ordinary Things.
Depending on the weather, we will be taking a little field trip today. Please bring your journals and a writing utensil with you. Please listen to instructions.
When we return from our "trip" please use the time in the lab to write 5 short poems with ordinary things as their subject. Form and structure (line, sound, tone, diction, etc.) is up to you. Write each poem in the same file. Call these drafts ORDINARY THINGS
SOME KEY POETIC TERMS YOU NEED TO KNOW:
Diction: word choice. Select words in your poem carefully to carry the most meaning. All words have a denotative meaning and a connotative meaning. Understatement, euphemism, and other rhetorical strategies may be used to affect a poem's diction. Speaking to your elderly grandparents uses a different diction than speaking to your "homies".
Voice: The agent or "speaker" speaking through the poem. Also called the "persona".
Tone: Often the attitude of your speaker or the voice. Identified in a poem by diction.
- Tone can be formal or informal depending on the diction a poet uses.
- Tone can be ironic, sarcastic, serious, pedantic, or hyperbolic depending on the voice a poet selects.
- Tone can be positive or negative or neutral. Selecting one of these tones can or should affect your diction.
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