Poetry

Assonance: the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in non-rhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible

Alliteration: the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

Rhythm: a strong, regular, repeated sound pattern of movement or sound

Dramatic poetry: Tells a story using a character’s own thoughts or spoken statements

Narrative poetry: Tells a story and has a plot, characters, and a setting

Lyric poetry: Express the feelings of a single speaker (most popular in modern literature)

Onomatopoeia: the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named

Free verse: Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.

Ballad: a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas

Verse paragraph: Stanzas with no regular number of lines or groups of lines that make up units of sense

Stanza: A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse

Persona: a character assumed by an author in a written work

Know how to create your own simile and metaphor

Simile: I run like the wind, as sly as a fox

Metaphor: the exam is a piece of cake

Frankenstein

Familiarize yourself with: Victor’s journey as a tragic hero, themes, and the frame narrative

• the tragic hero dies for what seems to be a noble cause and has a fatal flaw that leads to their demise

  • Victor wanted to overcome nature to prevent human suffering. He created the monster and regrets it and avoids the problem as much as possible. causes a lot of people to die including himself

Themes

• Nature vs. Nurture

• Playing God

• Responsibility

• Cause and Effect

• Prejudice

Frame Narrative: Walton - Victor - Monster - Delacy Family - Monster - Victor - Walton.

Responsibility: how this affects multiple people

Shows what others thought of the monster- prejudice

Walton and Victor= both discovering something, Walton knew when to stop

• De Lacey: father of feliex and Agatha, also blind

• Mr. Kirwin: the magistrate in Ireland, wrote letters to Victor’s dad

• Elizabeth: Victor’s adoptive sister, the soon-to-be wife, was killed by the monster last

• Safie: the Arabian girl who was in love with Felix

• William: Victor’s youngest brother, was the first to die at the monster’s hands

• Clerval: Victor’s best friend, died because of the monster while on their trip

• Justine: the Frankenstein’s family servant but was more like family, was convicted of William’s murder

• Victor: the main character, 2nd person in the frame narrative, created the monster

• R. Walton: the captain of the boat, the first person in the frame narrative

• M. Waldman: the professor at the college Victor went to who encouraged him to broaden his science studies

Julies Ceasar

• Flavius and macules are tribunes, they were silenced, they were reminding the working class to go back to work because Caesar killed Pompey

• What is the celebration at the same time as Caesar comes back: starts February 15 and ends March 15th and Lupercal celebrates fertility

• Brutus compares Caesar to a poisonous snake

• essay question: talking about ambition in Frankenstein and in JC, what was Brutus’ tragic story

  • Kill Caesar to protect War, civil war breaks out, people who he loves also die, and Octavius ends up running Rome