Sound and Sense: October 9, 2018

Focus: How can sound devices help us unlock poetry?

1. Warming up: Describing two different scenes using only your sense of sound

2. Offering you some of my favorite poetic sound devices

Euphony: Pleasing to the ear, harmonious

Cacophony: Harsh, discordant, unpleasant sounds

Alliteration: Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words (the snake slithered silently)

Assonance: Repetition of vowel sounds (or, as Eminem refers to it, "Word Bending")


3. Enjoying several poems together using only our ears

• What sounds are you noticing?

• How do the sounds contribute to/create the larger meanings of the poems?

4. Composing your big question blog responses to East of Eden

HW:
1. For THURSDAY: Finish your East of Eden blog response. We will have our Tuesday writing on the novel this Thursday.

2. For FRIDAY: If you have your own copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, bring it to class.

3. Start reading your sonnet out loud a few times a day; aim to memorize it by October 24.