1. English 9 Mr. Rinka - Lesson #31 Capitalization Poetry Terms

2. Capitalization We must capitalize names of teams, organizations, institutions, business firms, buildings, structures, and government bodies. Type of NameExamples TeamsAtlanta Braves / Boston Celtics OrganizationsMajor League Baseball / United Nations InstitutionsRice University / Central High School Business FirmsSony Corporation / General Electric Buildings/StructuresRialto Theater / Empire State Building Government BodiesSenate / Supreme Court / Treasury Department

3. Capitalization We do not capitalize words like university, hotel, theater, or courthouse unless part of a proper name. Harvard University a famous university Delux Hotel a hotel downtown Oriental Theater a classic old theater Suffolk County Courthouse a county courthouse

4. Capitalization We must capitalize the names of historical events and periods, holidays, special events, and other calendar items. Type of NameExamples Historical Events / Periods World War II / French Revolution / Atomic Age Special EventsParents’ Night / Texas State Fair / Super Bowl Holidays / Calendar Items Friday / Memorial Day / New Year’s Day

5. Capitalization We must capitalize the names of nationalities, races, and peoples. Canadian Asian Caucasian Viking We must capitalize brand names. Ford Nike Polo Stetson Pepsi

6. Capitalization We must not capitalize names of school subjects except for languages or course names that are followed by a number. I plan on taking English, algebra, Biology 1, and French poetry.

7. Capitalization We must not capitalize the name of a class level in school. freshman sophomore junior senior We must not capitalize seasons of the year. spring summer autumn winter

8. Capitalization We must capitalize the names of trains, ships, aircraft, spacecraft, planets, awards, monuments, and other specific places, things, or events.

9. Capitalization Type of NameExample Ships & TrainsTitanic USS Saratoga Orient Express Aircraft & SpacecraftSpirit of St. Louis Apollo 13 Voyager 1 Monuments & Memorials Washington Monument Lincoln Memorial AwardsPurple Heart National Honor Society Planets & StarsNeptune Ursa Major Little Dipper Earth (only when referred to as a planet)

10. Capitalization We must capitalize titles. President Obama Mr. Stevenson Dr. James Blair Principal Johnson Professor Church Reverend Holmes

11. Capitalization Do not capitalize titles used alone or following a name. We saw the principal at the movies. John Kerry is the senator from Massachusetts. I went to see my doctor yesterday.

12. Capitalization We must capitalize titles when used as a direct address. Can you help me, Doctor? Professor, would you explain that answer?

13. Capitalization We must capitalize words showing family relationship with a name but not with a possessive pronoun. I went shopping with Mother and Father. I went shopping with my mother and father. My family visited with Uncle John and Aunt Marie.

14. Capitalization We must capitalize all words in titles except: Articles (the, a, an) Short prepositions (fewer than five letters) Coordinating conjunctions Romeo and Juliet

15. Capitalization Type of NameExample Books For Whom the Bell Tolls To Kill a Mockingbird The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Periodicals Sports Illustrated Newsweek Field and Stream Poems “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” “Stopping by Woods, on a Snowy Evening” Stories “The Gift of the Magi” “The Lady, or the Tiger” Essays & Speeches “I Have a Dream” “The Value of Working to Your Full Potential”

16. Capitalization Type of NameExample Plays “The Diary of Anne Frank” “Westside Story” Historical Documents Declaration of Independence Magna Carta Movies Stand and Deliver Dances with Wolves Radio & TV Programs Meet the Press All Things Considered Works of Art Mona Lisa Young Woman Attended by a Maid Musical Compositions “I Want to Hold Your Hand” “The Flight of the Bumblebee” Cartoons & Comic Strips Calvin and Hobbs Batman and Robin

17. Capitalization We must capitalize names of religions and their followers, holy days/celebrations, specific deities and documents. Type of NameExamples Religion/Followers Judaism Christianity Islam Buddhism Hinduism Holy Days/Celebrations Christmas Passover Ramadan Deities Allah God Jesus Brahma Documents Bible Koran Upanishads

18. Capitalization we are going to the movie avatar at the westside theater. my favorite song is “do you like shakespeare?” by susan justice. next sunday we will celebrate founder’s day at central university. i went with mother and father to tour the uss missouri, a world war II battleship.

19. Capitalization We are going to the movie Avatar at the Westside Theater. My favorite song is “Do You Like Shakespeare?” by Susan Justice. Next Sunday we will celebrate Founder’s Day at Central University. I went with Mother and Father to tour the USS Missouri, a World War II battleship.

20. Capitalization the novel one flew over the cockoo’s nest by ken kesey is taught in freshman english at kenyon college. last fall i took algebra 1, biology, french and history. we visited the statue of liberty, ellis island and the empire state building while in new york city. i used an apple computer when i typed my essay “an analysis of shakepeare’s poetry” for prof. jones.

21. Capitalization The novel One Flew over the Cockoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey is taught in freshman English at Kenyon College. Last fall I took Algebra 1, biology, French and history. We visited the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island and the Empire State Building while in New York City. I used an Apple computer when I typed my essay “An Analysis of Shakepeare’s Poetry” for Prof. Jones.

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23. Alliteration The repetition of consonant sound in words that are close to one another. The moan of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees. “The Princess: Come down, O Maid” Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

24. Assonance The repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds in words that are close together. moon – boot – doom bat – man - cap

25. Ballad A song or songlike poem that tells a story. In Scarlet Town, where I was born, There was a fair maid dwellin' Made every lad cry wellaway, And her name was Barbara Allen. “Barbara Allen's Cruelty” Anonymous. 17th Cent.

26. Blank Verse Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter What is the boy now, who has lost his ball, What, what is he to do? I saw it go Merrily bouncing, down the street, and then Merrily over-there it is in the water! “The Ball Poem” John Berryman

27. Couplet Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme. Behold the hippopotamus! We laugh at how he looks to us, And yet in moments dank and grim, I wonder how we look to him. “The Hippopotamus” Ogden Nash

28. Free Verse Poetry that has no regular meter or rhyme scheme. Running through a field of clover Stop to pick a daffodil I play he loves me, loves me not, The daffy lies, it says he does not love me! Well, what use a daffy When Jimmy gives me roses? By Flora Launa

29. Haiku A brief unrhymed, three-lined poem developed in Japan in the 1600’s. An old pond! A frog jumps in- The sound of water. Matsuo Basho

30. Lyric Poetry Songlike poetry that expresses private emotions or thoughts. I heard a fly buzz when I died; The stillness round my form Was like the stillness in the air Between the heaves of storm. “Dying” Emily Dickinson

31. Meter A generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry. Two house / holds, both / a like / in dig / ni ty, In fair / Ver on / a, where / we lay / our scene, From an /cient grudge / break to / new mu / ti ny, Where ci /vil blood / makes ci / vil hands / un clean. Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare

32. Ode A complex, generally lengthy lyric poem on a serious subject. My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: “Ode to a Nightingale” John Keats

33. Pastoral Poetry Poetry that depicts rustic life in idealized terms. Come live with me and be my Love, And we will all the pleasures prove That hills and valleys, dale and field, And all the craggy mountains yield. “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” Christopher Marlowe

34. Prose Poetry Poetry written in prose form but using poetic devices to express a single emotion or idea. Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. “Loveliest of trees, the cherry now” A. E. Housman

35. Refrain A repeated word, phrase, line or group of lines. And the raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; “The Raven” Edgar Allan Poe

36. Rhyme The repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem. Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening” Robert Frost

37. End Rhyme Rhyme that occurs at the end of a line of poetry. My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year. “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening” Robert Frost

38. Internal Rhyme Rhyme that occurs within a line or lines of poetry. I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under, And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder. “THE CLOUD” Percy Bysshe Shelley

39. Approximate Rhyme Words that similar but do not exactly rhyme. He who the ox to wrath has moved never be by woman loved “Auguries of Innoncence” William Blake

40. Sonnet A 14 lines poem, usually written in iambic pentameter, that has one or several traditional rhyme schemes.

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42. Stanza A group of lines in a poem that forms a single unit. Where true Love burns Desire is Love's pure flame; It is the reflex of our earthly frame, That takes its meaning from the nobler part, And but translates the language of the heart. “Desire” Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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