1. English II Honors – 25 October Grab handouts Have textbook & notebook out HW: Study for Unit 2 – Medieval English Literature test Wednesday Vocabulary Unit 4 Quiz Friday Quarter ends this week. Make up all quizzes by Wednesday Essay scores will be entered by Wednesday. If you haven’t yet turned it in to turnitin.com, this score will be a zero until you do so and let me know.

2. Early English & Scottish Ballads and Everyman Elements of Literature pages 105 - 121

3. Reading a poem academically 1. Look at the poem’s title 2. Read the poem straight through 3. Use writing to think 4. Look for patterns. 5. Identify the narrator (or speaker) 6. Read the poem again 7. Find the crucial moments. 8. Consider form and function. 9. Look at the language of the poem. 10. Go deeper or call it quits.

4. Early English & Scottish Ballads From traditions of common people Oral & sung Characteristics: Simple narrative Focus on single incident Little, if any, attention to characterization

5. Early English & Scottish Ballads Literary Elements: Refrain: A word, phrase, line, or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem, usually at the end of a stanza Effect? Incremental repetition: Repetition of a previous line but with a slight variation each time that advances the narration stanza by stanza. Quatrain: A stanza of four lines

6. “Sir Patrick Spens” You’ll notice some differences in translation.

7. Poetic Meter Meter: A generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry Foot : a unit of measurement for meter A vertical line | is used to separate feet Example: I like | big butts | and I | cannot | lie Those oth|er bro|ers can’t|deny Iamb: One unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable, such as rePORT. A half circle ( ŭ ) above the syllable is used for unstressed, an accent mark (ú) is used for stressed.

8. Poetic Meter A metrical line is named for its pattern and number of feet: Iambic Pentameter (5 iambs): I like | big butts | and I | cannot | lie It should be noted that a lot of poetry won’t fit exactly into these forms. Like above

9. Everyman Miracle Play: a popular religious drama of medieval England. Miracle plays were based on stories of the saints or on sacred history Morality Play: Religious dramas in which virtues and vices were personified Everyman All characters are a vice or virtue: Death, Fellowship, Good Deeds, Strength, etc. Everyman (representing us) finds out he is dying, and asks all his friends, (Strength, Fellowship, Beauty) to come with him. Only Good Deeds comes with him. Allegory: A tale in which characters, actions, or settings represent abstract ideas or moral qualities.